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ATK Announces Complete Liberty System to Provide Commercial Crew Access

ATK announced today it has developed Liberty into a complete commercial crew transportation system, including the spacecraft, abort system, launch vehicle, and ground and mission operations, designed from inception to meet NASA's human-rating requirements with a potential for the first test flight in 2014 and Liberty crewed flight in 2015.
The company also announced Lockheed Martin will provide support to the ATK and Astrium Liberty team as a major subcontractor on the project.
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  ATK's Liberty rocket targets 2015 debut

The industrial team that aims to make an astronaut launcher by marrying parts of the US space shuttle and Europe's Ariane rocket says it now has a complete system.
Known as Liberty, the launcher would be sold to Nasa to take its crews to the International Space Station (ISS).
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