NASA Gives a Boost to Private Space Industry
January 15, 2008
Space entrepreneurs who want to fly you into orbit will get their chance to take cargo and crews to the space station when the space shuttles retire. NASA’s award of contracts totaling 500 million dollars to private rocketeers is a boost for a new approach to spaceflight.
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