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SpaceX Gets Astronauts To Try Out Its Dragon Crew Cabin

Posted by timothy on from the want-to-get-inside-it dept.

Zothecula writes "With the space shuttle program now officially over, the United States needs a new reusable vehicle for getting supplies to and from the International Space Station. NASA is considering the Dragon spacecraft, designed by California-based SpaceX Exploration Technologies, to take over that role. The Dragon's scheduled late March/early April test flight to the ISS will be unmanned, utilizing a cargo configuration of the spacecraft. Last Friday, however, SpaceX released photographs of an engineering model of its planned seven-passenger crew cabin, complete with a crew that included real, live astronauts."

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  1. Re:60 Minutes piece optimistic about SpaceX by Ihmhi · · Score: 0, Troll

    I heard on Fox News the first ship will be christened the USS Fake Hawai'in Muslim Socialist.

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