Five Vehicles Vie For Future Of U.S. Human Spaceflight

Credit: Sierra Nevada Corp.
U.S. spacecraft engineers with federal funding will pursue at least five different ways to replace the space shuttle in the next few years, from capsules that harken back to the 1960s to a spaceplane and a vertical-takeoff-and-landing craft that flies to orbit on a reusable booster. Breakup of the...

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