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Plane

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The BHO team and space
« on: November 28, 2008, 09:04:18 PM »
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U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's NASA transition team is asking U.S. space agency officials to quantify how much money could be saved by canceling the Ares 1 rocket and scaling back the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle next year.
http://www.space.com/spacenews/spacenews_summary.html#BM_3


I have been wondering what the new administration would want to do with the Space program.

What questions they ask is only a clue.

Xavier_Onassis

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Re: The BHO team and space
« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2008, 10:45:09 AM »
They are planning a new shuttle that will take off and land like a plane, rather than one with many booster rockets. That has to be expensive.
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Re: The BHO team and space
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2008, 10:47:56 AM »
They are planning a new shuttle that will take off and land like a plane, rather than one with many booster rockets. That has to be expensive.

The low cost option is to depend on Russian launches.