NASA just chose SpaceX to replace the Shuttle for flying astronauts

7 responses to “NASA just chose SpaceX to replace the Shuttle for flying astronauts”

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   jurvetson

   Aug 3, 2012 at 5:18 pm

   I’ll be visiting the SpaceX Grasshopper in Texas soon:
   

   Imagine the possibilities when reusability drops the price of launch 100x… I want to orbit the moon and enjoy the photography. Unlike Apollo, we could optimize for this. with better windows and very low orbits… Imagine doing a spacewalk gliding a few thousand feet over the lunar landscape… More dreams

   P.S. The video of my NewSpace2012 talk on commercial space entrepreneurship just went online, but the audio is a bit out of sync.

   And here’s a link to the enthusiastic reaction to SpaceX’s NASA crew win on Facebook.

   Inside the SpaceX Dragon crew capsule:
   

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2. 

   Les_Stockton

   Aug 3, 2012 at 5:40 pm

   pretty cool

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   Dr DAD (Daniel A D’Auria MD)

   Aug 3, 2012 at 8:01 pm

   Awesome!

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   solerena

   Aug 3, 2012 at 9:46 pm

   wow! 2015! governments are too slow, cheers to SpaceX! becoming a global space center for all mankind!

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   Aris Jansons

   Aug 3, 2012 at 11:27 pm

   Thanks for the news!

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   Space Art

   May 28, 2015 at 10:14 pm

   Yoohoo, let’s go home! 😉

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   jurvetson

   Apr 27, 2016 at 7:35 pm

   This just in: the first Dragon landing on Mars may come in 2018

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