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Old 02-15-2010, 11:59 AM
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Originally Posted by brewersprts
Oh, and there was supposed to be another rocket program that would be ready by 2012, so we could get back to the moon, but the great administration in the white house is talking about scrapping it. There was talk about extending the shuttle program though.

For the time being, we will have to use other countries rockets to get to the space station.
NASA tested the planned replacement for the shuttles a few months back. It is basically the same setup we used for the moon program, very similar to the Saturn rockets used back then. It is called the Ares I. A capule is launched and returned to the surface in a similar manner as the Apollo and Soyuz are returned.





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