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Now Boarding: The Top 10 Private Spaceships

• http://www.space.com, by Mike Wall
NASA retired its iconic space shuttle fleet in 2011, leaving the United States without a homegrown way to get its astronauts and cargo to space. But that should change soon.

A new generation of American private spaceships is on the horizon, with their sights set on both orbital and suborbital space. Here's a look at 10 of the most promising crew-carrying commercial craft in development today.

FIRST STOP: XCOR's Lynx Space Plane  

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