Saturday, March 31, 2007

NASA worries about gap in space flight

NASA worries about gap in space flight (AP)

A model of the Orion Crew Space Exploration Vehicle, right, the next-generation human spacecraft, is displayed during a ceremony at the Operations and Checkout building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral , Fla., in a Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007 file photo. Sometime in 2010, the United States will say goodbye to manned space flight for more than four years. The flight gap occurs because NASA winds down its space shuttle program in 2010 to move into the next phase of space exploration — the moon and Mars. The next-generation spacecraft, the Orion capsule, won't be ready for manned flight until March 2015. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)AP - Sometime in 2010, the world's leading space-exploring nation will say goodbye to manned space flight for more than four years. And that has U.S. policymakers worried.


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