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Boeing leases old NASA hangar to build spaceship

NASA's old space shuttle hangar at the Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, will now be used by the largest aerospace company in the world, ...

November 01, 2011 / 17:20 IST
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NASA's old space shuttle hangar at the Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, will now be used by the largest aerospace company in the world, Boeing to test and build Boeing's new spaceship, which will be used to transport astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) and back, confirmed a report in Space.com. The report further states that NASA leased out the old hangar, which happens to be the space shuttle processing hangar - Orbiter Processing Hangar Bay 3 at the space centre in Florida to Boeing for a period of 15 years. Click here for full story

first published: Nov 1, 2011 05:10 pm

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