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    #79: The Final Bridge to Crewed Flight

    August 28th, 2018 · 37 minutes

    NASA is inching toward crewed flights, with its Mobile Launcher Platform coming together and cis-lunar Gateway plans coming together, all while SpaceX and Boeing races to complete its crewed hardware.

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    One step closer: SpaceX installs crew access arm in lead up to first crewed flights - SpaceFlight Insider
    SLS mobile launch platform to go on the move this week – Spaceflight Now
    Orion elements coming together for EM-1 – NASASpaceFlight.com
    NASA’s planning to send people back to the Moon’s surface in about a decade - The Verge
    News | 15 Years in Space for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
    News | 15 of Spitzer's Greatest Discoveries From 15 Years in Space
    NASA’s asteroid-sampling spacecraft spies its target for the first time - The Verge
    NASA's cosmic blunder: the Apollo 11 sample bag that went to the Moon in 1969 ended up at a public auction