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Shik
Starship database: completed; History of Starfleet: done; website: probably never
Member # 343

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The U.S. space agency is sponsoring a competition in which winning companies will get $500 million in seed money to develop space vehicles that NASA will never design, build or own. Like a U-Haul truck rental, NASA instead will merely lease them on a per-trip basis for sending cargo and eventually crew to the international space station.

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Captain Boh
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Member # 1282

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Shik
Starship database: completed; History of Starfleet: done; website: probably never
Member # 343

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Thanks for making my laugh out in the lab.

If you can do it, man...I say go for the prize money.

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Ritten
A Terrible & Sick leek
Member # 417

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Should we incorporate and turn in a design based on a runabout?

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"You are a terrible human, Ritten." Magnus
"Urgh, you are a sick sick person..." Austin Powers
A leek too, pretty much a negi.....

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Jason Abbadon
Rolls with the punches.
Member # 882

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The topic should read:
"NASA hopes competition spurs commercial space growth before we lose another shuttle to preventable design flaws."

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bX
Stopped. Smelling flowers.
Member # 419

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Er, Captain Boh wins. That's just awesome.

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