Kippers
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Anyone know whats replacing it?
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Russ
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nothing
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sc0ott
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ask the astronaut farmer.
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Dom
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NASA will use Soyuz and private companies. Ares (including the rest of the constellation program; Orion has been brought back to be used as an escape module for ISS) was to replace the Shuttle but it was scrapped last year due to budget constraints.
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Ojc
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Registered: 14th Nov 00
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V2 rockets
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Robbo
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Slightly related... Saw this on Twitter the other day: When the Space Shuttle lands, everybody wear Ape suits, pass it on.
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Sam
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WTF
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Brett
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quote: Originally posted by Robbo
Slightly related... Saw this on Twitter the other day: When the Space Shuttle lands, everybody wear Ape suits, pass it on.
pmsl
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sand-eel
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Basically a capsule that has parachutes and floats back to earth.
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