A blue-ribbon panel charged with reviewing U.S. human spaceflight plans will hold its inaugural meeting here June 17. President Barack Obama's science adviser, John Holdren, ordered the review, announcing May 7 that the panel would be led by former Lockheed Martin Chief Executive Norman Augustine and given an August deadline for identifying a range of options for continuing manned spaceflight beyond the retirement of the space shuttle. Topics on the meeting agenda, which is open to the public, include previous studies on U.S. human spaceflight, international cooperation, commercial human spaceflight capabilities, current U.S. space policy and a discussion of the rockets developed under the U.S. Air Force's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program, according to a May 29 NASA release. The June 17 meeting will be held at the Carnegie Institution for Science here.
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