OSP Update
According to The Huntsville Times yesterday, Sean O'Keefe has told the NASA Advisory Council that it's time to stop the "leisure tour of design," on the Orbital Space Plane and get down to business, shaving two years off of the proposed deadline, though this article is a little unclear on that point. The article states that O'Keefe said that goal was to have OSP "ferrying station crews" by 2008 instead of 2010, but I believe '10 was the date just for crew return capability, not launch capability. Other than that, it's a pretty detailed article. I'll be curious to see how this plays. There's been a lot of criticism on NASA for not having an alternative or companion to the Shuttle ready before the 2010, so that should make those critics happy, but I'm curious whether this will open the agency up to criticism that it is "rushing" things (which would likely be unfair, since OSP involves primarily existing and tested technologies).

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