Why NASA Is Betting SpaceX Can Help Reinvent the Shuttle Program (Q&A)

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When former NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld was in elementary school, America was racing Soviet Russia to the moon.

Today, the U.S. is launching astronauts into orbit on Russian rockets, and the U.S. space shuttle program is a thing of the past.

There’s a plan to revive it, albeit in a different form. Americans will launch their own astronauts to space again in 2017, if all goes according to plan, but it’ll require billions of dollars and a lot of help from outside NASA. A little flair from Elon Musk wouldn’t hurt, either.

Source: recode.net

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