Shuttle SLEP Will Be Refocused, Probably Renamed

President Bush's new space exploration policy, combined with the fallout from the Columbia accident, will force NASA to refocus the service life extension program (SLEP) it had mounted for the shuttle before the disaster. Originally set up to keep the shuttle fleet in operation until 2015-20 with...

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