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    T+17: NextSTEP Habitat Prototypes, and the Zombie Centaur

    en-usAugust 17, 2016
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    About this Episode

    NASA selected six companies, as part of the NextSTEP program, to develop ground prototypes of deep space habitats, and the Centaur could live on as a wet workshop. Orbital ATK pushed OA-5 to late September. SpaceX landed yet another stage on the ASDS, and have up to 9 more launches planned for 2016.

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