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| Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 4:11 am Post subject: Aero-News: Quote of the Day (07.18.08) |
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"What you're seeing is sausage-making. I'm really satisfied with the work that's getting done." Source: Doug Cooke, NASA's deputy associate administrator for exploration. NASA admits the agency "very likely" will not be able to meet its ambitious goal of started manned spaceflights with its Orion spacecraft in five years, due to a number of technical glitches that still must be resolved. NASA already warned not to expect a manned Orion flight before March 2015... but the agency was also working to meet an internal schedule that would have moved up the first flight by approximately 18 months. It's now extremely unlikely that optimistic schedule will be met.
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