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Friday, November 1, 2013

The First Flight of This Mini-Shuttle Could Have Gone Much Better

So the post-Space Shuttle era isn't going quite as splendidly as we'd initially hoped it would back when we retired the fleet back in 2011. Sure we can still deliver supplies to the ISS thanks to privately developed modules like the Dragon Capsule, but getting crews up there is still only possible with the the Russian Space Agency's increasingly exorbitant launch assistance.