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Shuttle replacement won't fly until 2014

NASA has put off the planned launch of its next-generation Orion spacecraft for a year, a setback to efforts to get a successor to its aging space shuttles off the ground sooner rather than later, the space agency announced Monday. <p><a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~a/rss/cnn_space?a=YZa5Sb"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~a/rss/cnn_space?i=YZa5Sb" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_space?a=yDdcL"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_space?i=yDdcL" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_space?a=GvIQL"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_space?i=GvIQL" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_space?a=tfWYl"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_space?i=tfWYl" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_space?a=yfAiL"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_space?i=yfAiL" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_space?a=Mlg0l"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_space?i=Mlg0l" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_space/~4/396214896" height="1" width="1"/>