 | Task Force Grapples With Space Station Dollars And Science Agenda
| | WASHINGTON -- The International Space Station program (ISS) is in need of radical surgery. Out-of-control costs call for a slowdown in building the orbital outpost. There needs to be a reduction in expensive shuttle hops to the facility to four a year. Keeping the number of ISS occupants to three, in a "core complete" status -- rather than a permanent 7-person crew -- is necessary for the next few years. |
|  | U.S. Air Force Will Not Fund X-33, X-34 Vehicles
| | The U.S. Air Force has decided not to adopt NASA’s orphaned X-33 and X-34 experimental rockets or take on a greater role in the agency’s X-37 space vehicle program, according to industry and government sources. |
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