BY HOMER HICKAM
American space exploration has had two remarkable successes this month. On Dec. 3, the Air Force's X-37B, an unmanned mini-shuttle whose precise capabilities are secret, made a picture-perfect landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base after nine months in space. Then on Dec. 8, SpaceX successfully launched and landed Dragon, a cargo spacecraft that can be outfitted to carry astronauts, a first for a private U.S. company.
All of which raises the question, what's NASA up to these days? The answer: Not much.
In late September, the U.S. Senate arrived at a bipartisan compromise that phased out NASA's space shuttle program ...
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