Boeing argues next-generation RLV can't replace Space Shuttle

NASA's Space Shuttle can't be replaced by the next-generation reusable launch vehicles on the drawing board now because the new RLVs don't have human spaceflight capability, and the U.S. government should proceed carefully before it scraps the fleet of four space planes, Boeing's outgoing reusable...

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