NASA administrator projects slip of first manned Orion flight to 2015

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin told Senate lawmakers Feb. 28 that the first launch of the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) with astronauts aboard is likely to slip to early 2015 as a result of the budget cut contained in the recently passed fiscal 2007 continuing resolution. "I am projecting...

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