President Obama To Continue Some Orion Work

By Frank Morring, Jr. morring@aviationweek.com
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.

President Barack Obama will announce plans to continue work on the Orion crew exploration vehicle, perhaps as a lifeboat for the International Space Station, when he visits Kennedy Space Center on Thursday.

Also coming in the president’s first public address on his new space policy will be a timetable for deciding on an exploration architecture that would include a hydrocarbon-fueled heavy-lift launch vehicle ...

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