New Launch Vehicle Plans to Be Announced By Last Shuttle Launch
The waiting will soon be over according to NASASpaceflight.com. NASA will at last announce its plans for the Space Launch System (SLS) before the final shuttle launch, now scheduled for July 8.
Congress has been increasingly impatient waiting for NASA to make a decision on the SLS, which it directed the agency to build in the 2010 NASA Authorization Act. According to the NASASpaceflight.com website, NASA Administrator Bolden has signed off on a vehicle design. Quoting from a memo, the website describes a vehicle that will have an 8.4 meter core and upper stage, RS-25 engine for the core stage, J-2X engines on the upper stage, and 4 or 5 segment solid rocket boosters for initial flights.
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