Kill the Shuttle? RLV Debate Heats Up

A report prepared for NASA by an outside consultant recommends dropping the space shuttle fleet if a new RLV such as Lockheed Martin's VentureStar emerges from NASA's X-33 single-stage-to-orbit technology program. The report by Hawthorne, Krauss&Associates of Boston concluded that switching to a...

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