PRICE Systems Expertise Gives a Boost to NASA’s Space Launch Initiative The 2nd Generation Reusable Launch Vehicle A safer, less expensive Highway to Space is one of NASA’s most important goals as it continues to pioneer the future and do what has never been done before. Driving the new highway is NASA’s Space Launch Initiative (SLI) - a blueprint for investigating new space transportation architectures, and the technologies to profitably implement them. SLI’s centerpiece is the Second Generation Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) - set for takeoff in 2012. This will be the first completely new launch vehicle developed in the U.S. since the Space Shuttle’s inaugural launch in 1981. In a period of constrained budgets, NASA has another challenge - convincing Congress that every dollar it

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