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Old February 24th 10, 01:00 AM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.history
Jorge R. Frank
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Default NASA's new focus plan revealed

Allen Thomson wrote:
On Feb 23, 7:28 am, Pat Flannery wrote:
Lots of advanced demonstrator projects including a very high thrust new
kerosene/LOX engine:http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1002/22technology/


It sez,

"A strong candidate would be a hydrocarbon (liquid oxygen/kerosene)
engine, capable of generating high levels of thrust approximately
equal to or exceeding the performance of the Russian-built RD-180
engine," the NASA budget estimate said.

So why not continue to use the RD-180 or, if needed, license the
RD-170?


Reducing our dependency on Russia would be a good enough reason by
itself, IMO.