Posted on 02/19/2003 6:17:51 PM PST by BenLurkin
Edited on 02/19/2003 11:23:59 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
NASA announced a handful of new details Tuesday about the proposed orbital space plane, which is supposed to provide a safer, more flexible option for sending humans into space within the next decade.
The baseline requirements for the spacecraft call for a vehicle that can be an emergency escape pod for the international space station by 2010 and a simple way to get people back and forth to space two years later.
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