SPACE FLIGHT 2011 (interactive discussion)

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NASA pleads poverty, for inability to reach viable shuttle replacement by 2016 timeframe imposed.

"None of the design options studied thus far appeared to be affordable in our present fiscal conditions, based upon existing cost models, historical data, and traditional acquisition approaches," said a NASA report to lawmakers.
A decade or more is the timeframe that NASA proposes for shuttle replacement. Private spaceflight may render the point moot in ten years time.

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http://www.space-travel.com/reports/NASA_chief_tech_says_decade_for_shuttle_replacement_999.html