[FPSPACE] Ares 1/ Ares 5 or Direct? Good News

[Robert Law]

interesting peice on nasawatch  , aparently nasa is looking at shuttle -c again !
 
regards
 
Robert

--- On Thu, 2/19/09, E.P. Grondine <epgrondine at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine at hotmail.com>
Subject: [FPSPACE] Ares 1/ Ares 5 or Direct? Good News
To: fpspace at friends-partners.org
Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 4:13 PM




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The Good News: 

It appears that Ares 1 is understood to be so bad that it is no longer possible for Thiokol to railroad it through:

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2009/02/extra-nasa-funds-initial-step-towards-gap-reduction/

Note especially that in a nice bi-partisan way the Republicans have given Obama and his team more time to work this through.

Note also that the Direct team has not only launch vehicles but entire architectures laid out, architectures which will really open up the possibilities for international co-operation.

E.P. Grondine
Man and Impact in the Americas






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