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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA officials said Wednesday that it might be possible to try out its new moon rocketship a year earlier than its current target date of 2015. That would mean a four-year gap between the last space-shuttle flight and the new spacecraft, instead of five years. Many are troubled by the U.S. having to rely on Russia to reach the space station during that time.
NASA is looking at ways to move up its March 2015 test launch of the new Ares rocketship with a crew, but it will be difficult to accelerate the mission by much more than a year, said Jeff Hanley, manager of NASA’s back-to-the-moon program, called Constellation.
