NASA: Orion and Heavy Lifter Need Funding Stability

摘要

NASA and its contractor teams are making significant progress toward their goal of building the Orion crew capsule, designing its future heavy-lift launch vehicle and integrating the two elements for a planned flight in 2017. That timeline would be in jeopardy, however, if NASA does not receive funding for the program at the currently budgeted level of approximately $2.7 billion per year for the next five years, witnesses told the U.S.