Citing costs, NASA kills futuristic X-33, X-34

After five years and more than $1 billion, NASA is dropping work on two futuristic programs - the X-33 and X-34 - that were designed to pave the way for a successor to the 20-year-old space Shuttle. A day after announcing that President Bush's proposed budget cuts would force cutbacks in the...

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