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Old May 31st 12, 03:58 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Jeff Findley[_2_]
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This article says that NASA has contracted for new Dragon's on each ISS
flight. Because of this, SpaceX is planning to reuse them for other
commercial missions.

http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/new...-continue-for-
dragon-return-to-earth-on-may-31-update-2

From above:

This Dragon spacecraft will not be reused, Couluris said.
NASA has contracted for new Dragon spacecraft for each of
its missions, he said, although Dragons are reusable.
This particular spacecraft "definitely" will be put on
display for historical purposes, but other Dragon
spacecraft could be refurbished and reflown for other
customers. One version, DragonLab, is capable of two
years of autonomous operations in orbit, he added.

I see that they anticipate that Dragon could stay in orbit for two
years. That would be impressive and would essentially make DragonLab a
mini-space station.

Back in the Space Station Freedom days, there were notional designs for
"free flyers" which would detach from the station and fly in close
formation. The reason for this was to provide better microgravity
conditions for experiments. Dragonlab would seem to provide very nearly
the same capability that the old "free flyer" concept would have
provided.

Jeff
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