It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
With NASA temporarily (we hope) out of the manned spaceflight business, our once-proud space program has been reduced to paying the Russians over $70 million per seat to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station.
Now, the private company, SpaceX — which has already completed 3 successful missions to the space station — has unveiled its Dragon V2, which will not only be able to carry 7 astronauts into orbit, but can return them safely and land them in your backyard with the precision of a helicopter.
Yeah, Russians, bring it on: American technology is alive and well.
originally posted by: nighthawk1954
I just had to share this awesome video!
With NASA temporarily (we hope) out of the manned spaceflight business, our once-proud space program has been reduced to paying the Russians over $70 million per seat to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station.
Now, the private company, SpaceX — which has already completed 3 successful missions to the space station — has unveiled its Dragon V2, which will not only be able to carry 7 astronauts into orbit, but can return them safely and land them in your backyard with the precision of a helicopter.
Yeah, Russians, bring it on: American technology is alive and well.
www.ijreview.com...
originally posted by: lostbook
...Nasa is heavily involved in SpaceX's progress.
originally posted by: smurfy
Here's that video,
It does look cool, I'm not sure about that swinging nosecone though..it just looks vunerable.
NASA is Sucking Wind