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First Private Manned Orbital Flight Announced

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the looking-forward-to-tickets dept.

Miroslav Ambrus-Kis wrote in to tell us that Inter-orbital Systems has announced that Nebojsa Stanojevic and Miroslav Ambrus-Kis will be the astronauts aboard the first completely private orbital flight. This is part of their bid for the Google Lunar X-Prize.

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  1. Re:and NASA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think the issue here is NASA "appeared" to be rigorous with safety, but it was really just bureaucracy pretending to care while not really doing anything to improve conditions/equipment.