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[i]Rep. Parker Griffith, D-Huntsville, confirmed the White House directed review of Ares, but said the program was still healthy. "The Ares I and V vehicles have been through several studies and reviews and I am confident that any additional study will show that the Ares program is our best option to take our astronauts safely to the space station and beyond," Griffith told The Times.[/i]
[i]The White House is expected to announce on Thursday that they will order a full review of the NASA’s Constellation program. The reason for the review is to determine whether the Ares I rocket and the Orion crew capsule are the best options for replacing the space shuttle. According to the Orlando Sentinel, this announcement will coincide with the release of the Obama administration’s $18.7 billion spending plan for NASA.[/i]
[i]"I think the people who are going to oversee this want to take another hard look at this. And there are people in some quarters, not all, who that say the study done in 2005 might have been shaded in such a way to lead you to the current architecture and they [the administration] now wants to take a look at whether [Constellation] is the right answer," said Roger Launius, a curator at the National Air and Space Museum.[/i]
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