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Modern spacecraft from 'NASA attic' reborn

MSNBC Thursday 26th April, 2012

reminiscent of NASA's space shuttle , is actually based on a concept vehicle, called HL-20, which was first looked at by the agency in the early 1980s. "We took it out of the NASA attic," Mark Sirangelo, chairman of Sierra Nevada, told reporters this month at the 28th National Space Symposium. "We think, in many ways, it's a terrific story. Not many things that NASA puts away -- or really any federal agency puts away for a long time -- comes out...

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