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  • White House Backs NASA Plan for Vehicles

    09/16/2005 11:10:33 PM PDT · by neverdem · 82 replies · 1,202+ views
    NY Times ^ | September 16, 2005 | WILLIAM J. BROAD
    The White House has approved NASA's plan to replace the nation's aging fleet of winged spaceships with a new generation of vehicles meant to carry human explorers back to the Moon and onward to Mars and beyond, aerospace experts said yesterday. The new rockets and spaceships are a radical departure for the space program, rearranging the components of the space shuttle into a new design expected to be more powerful that the shuttle but also safer. The shuttle has had two fatal accidents in 114 missions. "It's a thumbs-up for NASA to pursue the shuttle-derived vehicle," said John M. Logsdon,...