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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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Budd And Shaheen Bill Would Authorize 329 F-15EX Fighters

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HASC’s Wittman Sees ‘Challenging’ Push For $350B In Reconciliation Funds, Wants Sustained Defense Increase

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