Longer Delays Expected For Orion
ASA administrator Michael Griffin has warned the US Congress that he expects the four-year US manned spaceflight capability gap between the Space Shuttle’s 2010 retirement and its replacement’s first launch to grow, unless the agency’s fiscal year 2008 exploration systems budget is fully funded.
Cuts imposed in February by Congress on the FY2007 budget have already prompted Griffin to predict a six-month delay for the maiden flight of NASA’s four-person Orion crew exploration vehicle, which was planned for September 2014. Read more
