PARIS and WASHINGTON — Boeing will be laying off some 800 employees this summer unless NASA immediately agrees to incorporate the company’s work on the canceled Ares rocket program into the agency’s planned heavy-lift rocket mandated by Congress, the head of Boeing’s space exploration division said March 31.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris bureau chief for SpaceNews.