NASA Focuses On 2019 For First Crewed SLS/Orion Flight

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A team of NASA engineers expects to finish a report in about a month on the feasibility of flying astronauts in an Orion crew vehicle on the first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) instead of the second, a change that likely would require a slip in the launch from next year until 2019...

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