[FPSPACE] Ares1/Ares5 or Direct?

[E.P. Grondine]

This is one of the items I used for Volume 4 of my History of Cosmonautics:

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=14450.0

Thiokol lobbying goes back a long way.

If the new leadership feel the necessity of developing a solid fueled launcher for 
defense purposes, maybe perhaps the Department of Defense should fund it instead of NASA.

E.P. Grondine
Man and Impact in the Americas

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