NASA budget amendment delays next-gen RLV, cuts SLI by $2.325 billion
NASA's amended fiscal year 2003 budget request puts development of a next-generation reusable launch vehicle (RLV) on hold at least until 2009, cutting a total of $2.325 billion from the Space Launch Initiative (SLI) to fund work on a new Orbital Space Plane (OSP) for ferrying crew to and from the...
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