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Could Adding Rockets Make International Space Station An Interplanetary Spaceship For Voyage To Mars?

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Monday, July 14th, 2008

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Adding a propulsion system and navigation gear to the International Space Station (ISS) could turn the $156 billion orbiting laboratory complex into an interplanetary spaceship, a writer on space issues argues. With 15,000 cubic feet of space, the ISS would have more room than the next-generation U.S. spaceship, the space capsule Orion, Michael Benson argues in The Washington Post. Orion is being developed in the Constellation Program, along with the Ares rocket that will lift Orion into space. At first,…

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All Future Systems Should Have Autonomy Features, Reed Says

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Senate Appropriators Concerned With DoD’s Reconciliation Plan For Top FY ‘27 Priorities, Aide Says

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With $1.5 Trillion Request, Army, Air Force, Navy’s Unfunded Lists Focus Solely On MILCON Projects

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Unmanned Systems

Bipartisan House Bill Would Give National Guard To Counter-Drone Authorities

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