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U.S. Agencies Aim for Improved Space Launch Success

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Monday, December 7th, 2009

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Key government space agencies Dec. 3 agreed on a new set of mission assurance principles that they say will lead to improved launch success. "With the strategic intent and a memorandum of understanding, we can make more effective, coordinated progress toward sustained mission success," Wanda Austin, president and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation, told reporters during a teleconference Dec. 3. "Experience has demonstrated that the cost of mission assurance is minor compared with the cost and impact of a delayed…

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