HTTP:: NASA Review Panel Releases Preliminary Report
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The spaceflight review committee appointed by President Barack Obama early on this year revealed two days ago its first official report summary, detailing possible future avenues of development for the American space agency. Five basic options are detailed in the 12-page document, of which only two are closely related to the ongoing Project Constellation, Space reports. The full assessment is scheduled to be released near the end of this month. Among the most important highlights of the document is the fact that four of the options state that the retirement of the space shuttles should be delayed until at least mid-2011, as opposed to the 2010 deadline currently in effect. The fifth option argues that the shuttles should be retired only in 2015, when, at least in theory, the Project is supposed to come online. One of the options in the new report states that NASA should continue its current plans, but argues that the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle and the ARES I rocket!
would not become available until 2016. For the heavy-lift member of the Project, ARES V, the deadline for completion would move in the late 2020s, the same report also shows, while the Altair Lunar Lander would only be completed in the 2030s, if ever. This option relies on the fact that the agency's budget will not be increased over the...
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