Wednesday, August 10, 2011

What's up for the astronauts?

Former astronaut Jim Voss stands with students around a full-scale model of Sierra Nevada Corp.'s Dream Chaser mini-shuttle, housed inside a hangar at Centennial Airport in Colorado. Voss teaches engineering at the University of Colorado and is also an executive at Sierra Nevada. The UC-Boulder students in the picture include Christine Fanchiang, Taylor Donaldson, Chad Healy and Ben Kemper.Four companies are vying to carry U.S. spacefliers, and former NASA astronauts will be lending them a hand. �Commentary by NBC News' Jay Barbree.


Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44084130/ns/technology_and_science-space/

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