NASA suffered greatly under Bush due to moronic leadership in NASA’s head office. It’s F’n wonderful to see Obama is keeping that moronic tradition alive.:rolleyes:
Ares V is “simpler”…yeah, right. 😡
Obama banks on NASA’s big launcher
Ares I set for scrap heap, says reportBy Austin Modine
Posted in Space, 18th December 2009 22:11 GMTUS President Barack Obama will ask Congress to jettison NASA’s plans to develop its next-generation Ares 1 crew launch vehicle and increase funds for the “simpler” Ares V heavy lift rocket to replace the space shuttle fleet.
more at link…
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/18/report_aresi_aresv_nasa_new_direction/
By: Distiller - 20th December 2009 at 10:03
Ares I is human qualified, Ares V not.
Don’t think that “human qualified” thing is necessary, but that’s just me. With an attitude like that the Vikings would never gone to Vinland, or La Salle down the Mississippi …
By: Spacepope - 20th December 2009 at 01:56
Ares V was the choice that should have been chosen from the get-go, none of this piddling around with the limp Ares I. 25 ton payload versus 188 ton payload? Really? There’s a debate over this?
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December 19, 2009 at 5:11 am