Commercial Spaceflight Companies Move Closer To Manned Missions, Space Tourism
Much of the Aerospace news this year focused on commercial companies that are moving ever-closer to being able to carry astronauts to the International Space Station and tourists into space. Two commercial entities made re-supply flights to ISS this year, and one of those hopes to be carrying crewmenbers in the not-too-distant future. NASA, meanwhile, continued with planning for an asteroid mission that has been roundly criticized by some on Capitol Hill and former astronauts, but the agency's Curiosity rover on Mars was something of a darling of the agency. Here are some of the out-of-this-world stories from the past year as seen on Aero-News.
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