{"id":9829,"date":"2010-02-23T19:54:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T19:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/building-a-true-spaceship-and-then-going-somewhere\/"},"modified":"2010-02-23T19:54:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T19:54:34","slug":"building-a-true-spaceship-and-then-going-somewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nasa\/building-a-true-spaceship-and-then-going-somewhere.php","title":{"rendered":"Building a True Spaceship – And Then Going Somewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Spaceships Worthy of the Name<\/a>, Buzz Aldrin, Huffington post<\/p>

\"In storage at Marshall Spaceflight Center, and elsewhere around the country are spacecraft components from which we can build a true spaceship, one worthy of the name. I've called the Exploration Module, or XM. This vehicle, lifted up to orbit aboard the Space Shuttle in its final missions, would be a true spacecraft that lives only in space. ... My concept for a cycling spaceship, now universally called the Aldrin cycler, could be fashioned out of the XM. All we'd need would be a rocket to attach to it, maybe like the Centaur liquid hydrogen upper stage flown many times aboard many different launchers - and managed by Ohio's Glenn Research Center.\"<\/i><\/p>

For NASA no easy answer for next space destination<\/a>, AP<\/p>

\"Former NASA associate administrator Alan Stern said he's waiting to hear what NASA officials outline in the Capitol Hill hearings, but he too has concerns about not having a precise destination. \"We need a destination and a timetable and that's really lacking,\" Stern said. He said that relying on technology to dictate a location \"sounds like a program to nowhere.\" Because human spaceflight is about inspiration, science and international cooperation, Stern said, \"you need a specific destination, a proper noun, something that's capitalized.\"<\/i><\/p>

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