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79 – Excellent historical technical description of NASA’s Space Shuttle System (Repost with update)

Posted on May 29, 2018 by mikesnead

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I am reposting this blog entry along with an update. The original posting disappeared while migrating the website to a new server. If you recently signed up to receive email Continue Reading79 – Excellent historical technical description of NASA’s Space Shuttle System (Repost with update)→

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70 – Space Review article: Should NASA build spacefaring logistics infrastructure?

Posted on January 26, 2017 by mikesnead

On January 9, 2017, this article was published in The Space Review. (A PDF of the article is here.) In the 1990s, I began to focus on how to build Continue Reading70 – Space Review article: Should NASA build spacefaring logistics infrastructure?→

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Posted in Presidential space policy, The Space Review | Tagged Blue Origin, infrastructure, Jeff Bezos, logistics, NASA, spacefaring

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