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'atch this Space' The American Space shuttle is the most advanced and complex machine ever flown. The remaining shuttles have served out their life and are due for retirement after thirty years. What will replace them? What next, to ferry payloads and astronauts to the International Space Station? NASA has contracts pending with other companies, including Spacex, to provide the necessary hardware to supply and maintain the Space Station. Their capsule, The Dragon, now under development, is slated for missions in the near future. A conventional blunt-nosed, cone-shaped design, it will be launched atop their Falcon 9 launch vehicles.
