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U.S. space program veering toward ominous black hole.(NASA's FUTURE)
Kiplinger Letter, The, July, 2007
The U.S. space program is veering toward an ominous black hole.
The shuttle era is scheduled to come to an end in 2010, when the Atlantis, Discovery and Endeavour crafts are retired.
Current plans are for a return to NASA's rocket-based roots: A space capsule, dubbed the Orion, carried on a rocket called Ares I. Alliant Techsystems' ATK Thiokol, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and Boeing are performing the bulk of the work on the launch vehicle, while Lockheed Martin is the primary contractor on the crew capsule.
NASA wants to revive moon missions and eventually get to Mars.
But the first rocket launch won't get off the ground till 2014. NASA will have to ask Russia's space program to send U.S. astronauts into orbit to visit the...
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