Expert Says New Orbiter Safer Than New Orbital Space Plane

COLUMBIA REPLACEMENT Add another voice to the NASA advisers who believe it would make more sense to build a new space shuttle orbiter to replace Columbia than to develop a smaller, less capable Orbital Space Plane (OSP) using essentially the same technology. Richard D. Bloomberg, former chairman of...

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