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NASA issues draft request for moving space shuttle Discovery—or Orion capsule

NASA issues draft request for moving space shuttle Discovery—or Orion capsule
Image source: Ars Technica Space
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NASA has taken a step forward to moving an undetermined spacecraft of a various size on an indefinite date to a yet-to-be-decided location.

Or to put it another way: NASA is seeking.

The space agency on Thursday (March 19) released a draft request for proposal (DRFP) for the "NASA Flown Space Vehicle Multimodal Transportation Multiple Award Contract," seeking to learn how contractors would approach transporting both "large aerospace vehicles and smaller spacecraft capsules.

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