ROCKWELL EYES X-33 DESIGN GAINS

Rockwell International officials hope product data management efforts and improved design and manufacturing software will help cut the cost of developing NASA's X-33. ``Overall, the cost of doing X-33 is probably one-third of what it was to develop the first [shuttle] orbiter,'' Thad Sandford...

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