Decision on Hubble Rescue Slips Ares I-X into August

Credit: WILLIAM G. HARTENSTEIN/AW&ST
A first flight test for the vehicle intended to deliver U.S. astronauts to space after the shuttle fleet retires next year has slipped by about a month, to late summer at the earliest. Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B will be occupied too long by the space shuttle Endeavour, which NASA...

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