Two-Step Crew Vehicle Option Under Study for Space Station

Top NASA managers are considering a two-step option for flying humans to orbit that would give International Space Station crews a U.S.-built lifeboat for emergency return to Earth as early as 2009 and two-way transport with the same basic vehicle a few years later. An early version of the crew...

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