Added 1 new A* page:NASA had an announcement today about choosing the Boeing CST-100 and SpaceX Dragon capsules to take American astronauts to the International Space Station—we've been relying on primarily Russian capsules for that since the end of the Space Shuttle program.
The more interesting part of the announcement was where they said that having commercial agencies handle that stuff would help free them up to reach their main goal, which is getting a manned crew to Mars. Leading up to that, they plan to have innovative manned missions: taking samples from an asteroid, going beyond the orbit of the Moon (maybe to a Lagrange point), and growing ("and eating") their own food.
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