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Space for Rent: Back to the Future

Tweet of the Day:

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If someone would have told me in 1994 that the future of spaceflight looked more like this:

Than this:

I would have laughed at them. There was no way that NASA would abandon the shuttle for something out of the 1960s. They pressed on after the Challenger disaster and their plans for the International Space Station hinged on shuttle availability which meant going back in…