Space shuttle replacement is falling behind schedule
JUN 09, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023408
OrlandoSentinel : With a White House–ordered review of its next-generation Constellation rocket program just weeks away, NASA faces some unwelcome news: Key milestones for the agency’s Ares I rocket and Orion crew capsule are falling further behind schedule because of design flaws and technical challenges.An important test of the Orion’s emergency escape system that was supposed to happen last year will not come off before November and could slip further.A review of the proposed fixes for the violent shaking at liftoff that has plagued development of the Ares I has been delayed from this summer to December.Even the first test flight of the Ares design—a mock-up rocket called the Ares I-X —has been moved from April to July to August and now possibly September.
© 2009 American Institute of Physics
