NASA faces deadline for tough decisions on shuttle

(AP) -- NASA is facing a critical deadline to make its biggest decision in a generation: whether to go forward with plans to retire the space shuttle fleet and replace it with a new mode of space travel. But the agency still has no chief to make the $230 billion call.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news159643208.html">NASA faces deadline for tough decisions on shuttle</a></p> <p>(AP) -- NASA is facing a critical deadline to make its biggest decision in a generation: whether to go forward with plans to retire the space shuttle fleet and replace it with a new mode of space travel. But the agency still has no chief to make the $230 billion call.</p>