» This Story:Read +|Watch +|Talk +| Comments

GRAPHIC: Replacing the Space Shuttle

NASA has signed contracts to design and begin building and testing components of Ares I and the Orion crew capsule, the first step in a new U.S. spaceship system.

GRAPHIC: Replacing the Space Shuttle

This Story
Acceptance Slow for Bush's Space Plan
Article | Four years after President Bush called for Americans to return to the moon and then voyage on to Mars, NASA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to design, build and test the spacecraft that would make it possible.
Discussion Policy
Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. Finally, we will take steps to block users who violate any of our posting standards, terms of use or privacy policies or any other policies governing this site. Please review the full rules governing commentaries and discussions. You are fully responsible for the content that you post.
» This Story:Read +|Watch +|Talk +| Comments
© 2008 Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive