Green | January 25, 2009 | 5 comments

NASA to test new-generation space rocket

source: http://www.news42day.com/2009/01/nasa-to-test-new-generation-space-rocket/

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Back when he was a high school student, in April 1981, Robert Ess says he was absolutely transfixed by NASA’s very first flight of its new space shuttle. “I was obsessed with it,” he says.
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5 comments // NASA to test new-generation space rocket

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  • Ragan
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      Ragan  

    • Old Technology? If they are still using the same technology as 1997, even the babylonians were modern. Three new computers systems set up and three knocked down. Like everything else get politics out of the space program and maybe just maybe we could go into space.

    • 3 years ago
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      KevinFederline  

    • It’s hard to explain going from a space shuttle to this new vehicle,” Ess says. “Our minds are so used to the space shuttle, for 20 years, and before that, Apollo.

    • 3 years ago
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