By Emelie Rutherford As the Obama administration moves to dismantle NASA's Constellation program, lawmakers are prodding the Pentagon to craft plans for aiding the industrial base for solid and liquid rockets. The fiscal year 2011 NASA budget initially proposed eliminating the space shuttle replacement program that has included the developmental Ares I launch vehicle and Orion crew capsule and the future Ares V heavy-lift rocket. Obama, though, called in April for salvaging some work done on Orion and pledged to…
Lawmakers Call On DoD To Aid Rocket Industry In Wake of NASA Changes
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