Sustaining the many companies looking to get into the spacecraft industry is going to take a much larger destinations list, said NASA administrator Charles Bolden at the University of Colorado Boulder on Friday. For example, if the industry wants to send a manned crew to Mars, the vehicle would have to be launched from a low-Earth orbit launchpad. And that, Bolden said, would create the need for a crewed spacecraft like Sierra Nevada Corp.'s Dream Chaser. "It remains for industry to demonstrate…
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