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Griffin Tells Lockheed Chief To Stop Trying To Kill Future Ares I Rocket In Order To Gain More ULA Rocket Orders

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Monday, January 5th, 2009

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NASA Administrator Mike Griffin bluntly told Robert J. Stevens, chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT], to stop trying to kill the future Ares I rocket, according to an Orlando Sentinel report quoting anonymous industry officials. The planned Ares I is part of the Constellation Program developing the next-generation U.S. spaceship system. While Lockheed has the contract to develop the Orion space capsule crew exploration vehicle in the Constellation Program, separate segments of the Ares I rocket to…

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