Billion-dollar interstellar cargo program revealed!

DeltaV · Post by **DeltaV** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 2:32 pm

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... tion-trip/

By MARCIA DUNN
Associated Press
Sunday, October 28, 2012

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. (AP) - An unmanned space capsule carrying medical samples from the International Space Station splashed down in the Pacific Ocean Sunday, completing the first official private interstellar shipment under a billion-dollar contract with NASA.
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So the ISS must have been the last stop on the way home from some distant star. I wonder which one? Go Elon!

AcesHigh · Post by **AcesHigh** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:21 am

well, at least they did not confuse light years for a time unit.

KitemanSA · Post by **KitemanSA** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:26 am

AcesHigh wrote:well, at least they did not confuse light years for a time unit.

Or parsecs either!