"Ultimate Buu" wrote in message
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http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/spa...sedan.ap/index.
html

The OSP program is on a crash schedule to get it flying within 5 years.
The
Shuttle will be dumped, just like I predicted since it's tainted by the
smell of death.


Not all that much new in the interview just restating the level 1
requirements but there are a few things.

1) They seem to have settled on a four seater without any of the
qualifications in previous statments.

2) "The key to the project, Smith said, is to keep the spacecraft simple and
use technology that already has been developed. That also makes it cheap. "
Lets hope they do that. If they do it will help a lot.