"Ed Kyle" wrote in
ups.com:

This is news. From congressional testimony reported at:

"http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=753&e=1&u=/ap/20050412/ap_o
n_go_co/nasa_chief&sid=84439559"

" Griffin also agreed with senators that there was an
unacceptable gap between the planned retirement, no
later than 2010, of the space shuttle, and the launch
some five years later of the next-generation manned
vehicle, called the Crew Exploration Vehicle."

As I suspected would be the case; the retirement of the Shuttle
will have to be pushed back, or funding and development of
CEV pushed up. More likely the former than the latter, given
the way Congress does things.

--Damon