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NASA Readies Plan B for Moon Rockets Thursday, June 25, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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NASA has a backup plan to launch crew and cargo to the moon, reduce the gap between shuttle retirement and a replacement ship's debut, and save taxpayers billions of dollars. They call it the side-mount shuttle. It's basically the space shuttle system without the winged orbiters. Preliminary NASA studies show that using the existing shuttle's solid rocket boosters, fuel tank and main engines as a launch system. (source: msnbc.msn.com)
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