Orion on track but overweight; funding crunch could hit in '07
NASA's Orion crew exploration vehicle remains on schedule to carry humans to the International Space Station no later than 2014, and possibly earlier, but it will need to go on a New Year's diet to lose about 3,000 pounds of excess weight. Managers are confident the weight can be trimmed, but they...
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