NASA's reach for the stars suffered another blow last week, as a
projected $6 billion deficit in the agency's troubled shuttle
program over the next four years is threatening to seriously delay
-- and possibly cripple -- President Bush's space exploration
initiative. The only alternative might be to cut the number of
planned shuttle flights virtually in half -- even after NASA has
already scaled back its plans on that front, to the detriment of
the ISS and shuttle-based research flights.
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