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A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla., in 2012. Photo: Air Force Space Command

A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla., in 2012. Photo: Air Force Space Command

1 posted on 06/13/2015 8:55:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

We pay the Russians to take our astronauts to and from the ISS, and for the supply rockets.

What’s McCain up to? Is he running for President again?


10 posted on 06/13/2015 9:27:01 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: SunkenCiv

One guy alone guy who almost had no startup money originally, and who as a boy had very few friends I think is going to totally change the way we live our lives.

We probably won’t see really deep effects even in five years but after 30 years Elon`s impact is going to be HUGE.

The thing I like most about him is that he is always polite and never a braggart.


13 posted on 06/13/2015 10:22:52 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: SunkenCiv

ULA has the Delta Heavy. SpaceX will have the Falcon Heavy- essentially 3 Falcon 9’s strapped together.

The demo launch is supposedly sometime this year. I had heard it may be pushed back, but I don’t know.


14 posted on 06/13/2015 10:31:31 PM PDT by hoagy62 (Only one solution left.....)
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To: SunkenCiv

I don’t know who thought it was a good idea to become so dependent on the Russians for our space program but it should stop. It’s the national security stupid.


18 posted on 06/14/2015 5:57:44 AM PDT by McGruff (Never Forget)
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To: SunkenCiv
....SpaceX and the Russian Rocket Mess>>>

The Soviet Union & now Russia always had a strong vision for space flight, despite the present 'mess', it pays now.




Antonov An-225 Mriya with Russian shuttle Buran in taxi, the World's Largest Plane
24 posted on 06/14/2015 8:55:51 AM PDT by Koracan
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