SLS announcement this morning

Talk about short notice: early this morning the Senate Commerce Committee send out an advisory that there will be a press conference this morning at 10 am EDT with NASA administrator Charles Bolden and "members of Congress", including Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) and Bill Nelson (D-FL), to "discuss the NASA announcement on the future of our space program". What NASA announcement? It's expected that NASA will finally announce its plans for the Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket. Florida Today, citing "senior Obama administration officials", said the SLS design will be similar to what's been rumored for months, a design using shuttle-derived technologies although with, at some point, a competition for the booster stages between shuttle-based solid rocket boosters and potential liquid-propellant alternatives. The press conference will be webcast on the Senate Commerce Committee's web site.

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