OrlandoSentinel:
With a White House–ordered review of its next-generation
Constellation
rocket program just weeks away, NASA faces some unwelcome
news: Key milestones for the agency's Ares I rocket and Orion
crew capsule are falling further behind schedule because of
design flaws and technical challenges.An important test of the
Orion's
emergency escape system that was supposed to happen last
year will not come off before November and could slip further.A
review of the proposed fixes for the violent shaking at liftoff
that has plagued development of the Ares I has been delayed
from this summer to December.Even the first test flight of the
Ares design—a mock-up rocket called the
Ares
I-X—has been moved from April to July to August and
now possibly September.
