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Space Tug to the Moon and Beyond

Posted by Zonk on from the toot-toot dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Andrews Space and SpaceDev, a contributor to SpaceShipOne, are building a cargo transport called SmallTug to travel to the Lunar L1 point using a Hall Thruster and running off of solar power. The final craft will be capable of attaching to and transporting satellites 85 percent of the way to the Moon for use in interplanetary missions. The launch date is scheduled for 2008 and it is being designed to be quite inexpensive. The Inquirer has more details."

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  1. well..... by KC9EOW · · Score: 0, Troll

    Seeing as how it's from the Inquirer and all... IF it's real, I say we fire all the beurocrats at NASA and hire the SpaceOne team :) Maybe we'll even get back to the moon someday with these guys in charge. Maybe they could build us some newer, better shuttles too.