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Article: NASA Unlikely to Build New Space Shuttle
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- February 2, 2003
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NASA is extremely unlikely to build a new space shuttle to replace
Columbia, according to experts, leaving the space agency with the
three remaining orbiters as its entire fleet for the foreseeable future.
The next generation of reusable space vehicles is at least 10 to 15
years off, said Donald H. Emero, who served as the shuttle's chief
engineer from 1989 to 1993.
"I think the country will not invest in any more shuttles," Emero
said Saturday.
Until a few years ago, NASA was exploring several designs for vehicles
to replace the space shuttle. But NASA's new administrator, Sean O'
Keefe, has shelved those designs and committed to operating ...