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#1 2008-02-08 15:54:14
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Re: I'm pinning my hopes on SpaceX, Bigelow and SpaceDev
I'm pinning my hopes for space travel on (currently) three companies. SpaceX for the launchers, Bigelow for the Stations and AOO (Assembled On Orbit) spacecraft, and SpaceDev for crew launchers.
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#3 2008-02-09 10:29:19
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Re: I'm pinning my hopes on SpaceX, Bigelow and SpaceDev
Well, if it can survive the vacuum, extremes of temp., micrometeroids, etc of space it would easily work in the much more hospitable conditions on other planets.
Unless you're talking Venus, Gas Giants, things like that 
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#5 2008-02-10 09:35:40
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Re: I'm pinning my hopes on SpaceX, Bigelow and SpaceDev
The first three yes, the next two maybe, and the last one no way.
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#7 2008-02-13 07:12:14
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Re: I'm pinning my hopes on SpaceX, Bigelow and SpaceDev
Plentiful Solar energy? But then again, all energy would have to go to keeping it from crashing into the Sun.
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#9 2008-02-15 08:44:57
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Re: I'm pinning my hopes on SpaceX, Bigelow and SpaceDev
Crashing into the center, then.
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