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Are SpaceX and Boeing even trying? 2017-03-08 06:31:17 Post No. 8731614
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http://spacenews.com/house-passes-nasa-authorization-bill/
>The bill is nearly identical to a bill the Senate passed in December, including language directing NASA to study the use of the Orion spacecraft as a crew transfer vehicle for the International Space Station as a stopgap if commercial crew vehicles suffer additional delays.
>if commercial crew vehicles suffer additional delays.
NASA is willing to spend $800 million on Orion flights to the ISS because SpaceX and Boeing are so behind schedule.
kek
When will they get their shit together, /sci/?
>tfw Lockheed Martin has to smack SpaceX and Boeing with their $800 dick to keep them in line
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>>8731614
>Let them fight
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>>8731614
Can't they mount an orion capsule on a flacon9?
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>>8731624
Falcon 9 has the capability to do it but it will never happen.
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Republican cucks have sabotaged space development for decades
fucking republicans
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>>8731614
I wonder what the problem is. It's not like they've never made a working capsule that can dock with the ISS.
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>>8731662
they are fat slow defence contractors
and the government bureaucrats that have to sign off on everything is far worse
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>>8731627
why not?
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>>8732099
bureocracy
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>>8732099
Because the Falcon 9 doesn't require the use of shitty wingnuts from Representative Fuckwad's backass district in the state of fuck all nowhere. If they launched on a Falcon 9 instead of SLS, the shitty wingnut factory might close and 6 people would need new jobs.
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>>8732191
Are you 12 years old?
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