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Orbital Propellant Depots: Building the Interplanetary Highway

by John K. Strickland, Jr.
August 5, 2011, was a highly significant date in the history of the space program. On that date, NASA announced contracts awarded to four aerospace companies to define demonstration missions to test the capabilities of cryogenic propellant depots. The contracts effectively created a design competition which would lead to the selection [...]

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