AviationNow: NASA Overhauling SLI To Fund Station Lifeboat
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NASA is restructuring the $4.8-billion Space Launch Initiative (SLI) to give it a near-term focus on building a crew rescue vehicle for the International Space Station, shifting as much as $2.4 billion through Fiscal 2007 into development of an "orbital spaceplane" that would allow the station to accommodate a larger crew than the three currently authorized.