DailyDirt: Going To Space

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Only three countries have developed manned space vehicles: Russia, US and China. However, since the retirement of NASA's space shuttle program, the US has not had a vehicle (of its own) ready to take astronauts to space. The European Union, Japan, and India have plans to develop manned space programs, and several commercial ventures are working on various ways to get people into space (or at least close to the edge of space). Here are a few ways Americans might get into space in the not-too-distant future. If you'd like to read more awesome and interesting stuff, check out this unrelated (but not entirely random!) Techdirt post via StumbleUpon.
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Filed Under: astronauts, iss, manned missions, orion, soyuz, space exploration, space vehicles
Companies: boeing, nasa, spacex, virgin galactic, world view enterprises


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    Anonymous Coward, 18 Sep 2014 @ 5:24pm

    100,000 feet isn't even close to space. It's less than 20 miles, while the boundary of space is generally considered to be 62 miles up.

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    Lawrence D’Oliveiro, 18 Sep 2014 @ 6:28pm

    One Three Countries Have Ever Achieved Manned Space Flight ...

    ... and only one has ever given it up.

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    Anonymous Coward, 19 Sep 2014 @ 8:21am

    have to use that money for more wars instead it seems. Funding terrorism to justify invading countries to fight the US funded terrorists

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