Shuttle flight target doable, Boeing official says

SHUTTLE TARGET DOABLE: Space shuttle operators will have to meet their 25-year average flight rate to make the 16 flights that will be needed to finish the International Space Station before the fleet is retired in 2010. Given post-Columbia safety constraints, flying at that rate - and making a 17th...

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