On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 17:48:21 -0500, in a place far, far away, Damon
Hill made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

" 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.

It doesn't say that it has to be closed--just that four years is
unacceptable. Griffin obviously plans to move the 2014 date up.