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Old July 22nd 10, 05:45 PM posted to sci.space.policy
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"U.S. company Boeing says it is accelerating plans for
a capsule-based spaceship to carry people to the ISS
space station and future private space stations."

See:

http://www.space-travel.com/reports/..._race_999.html
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Old July 23rd 10, 09:41 AM posted to sci.space.policy
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On 7/22/2010 8:45 AM, wrote:
"U.S. company Boeing says it is accelerating plans for
a capsule-based spaceship to carry people to the ISS
space station and future private space stations."


I'd be more impressed if it looked like this:
http://davidlevine.files.wordpress.c...anam_orion.jpg
You could call it the 2707, but that was the name for their canceled SST.

Pat
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Old July 23rd 10, 06:01 PM posted to sci.space.policy
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Pat Flannery wrote:

I'd be more impressed if it looked like this:
http://davidlevine.files.wordpress.c...anam_orion.jpg
You could call it the 2707, but that was the name for their canceled
SST.


Then how about the 3707 since the third time is the charm?-)

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