just THREE YEARS AFTER my "CREWLESS Space Shuttle" article,the NSF """experts""" discover the idea of an unmanned Shuttle to fill the2010-2016 cargo-to-ISS (six+ years) GAP
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just to add, that, in 2016-up, the early Ares-1 will be used for
manned Orion launches (also since Orion will have NO cargo version,
scrapped two years ago) then, a new (Ares-1 or Ares-5 based) cargo
vehicle, could be available not earlier than 2018-2022...
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