NASA: New Heavy-Lift Rocket Likely for 2018 Debut

NASA's new heavy-lift rocket, designed to fly astronauts to the Moon, asteroids and eventually Mars, likely will not have its debut test flight until November 2018, nearly a year later than previous estimates, agency officials said on Wednesday. NASA is 70 percent confident of making a November 2018 launch date, given the technical, financial and management hurdles the Space Launch System [SLS] faces on the road to development, NASA associate administrators Robert Lightfoot and Bill...

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