Griffin Strongly Rejects Shift to EELV

Frank Morring, Jr. January 09, 2009
It would be a mistake to drop development of the Ares I crew launch vehicle in favor of a human-rated Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV), NASA Administrator Michael Griffin argued Jan. 8 in a detailed defense of the outgoing Bush administration’s human spaceflight policy. But he said it might...

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