RE: Will Constellation live on?

Flightglobal:

This month NASA’s Orion undergoes a major design review and its launcher's solid rocket is tested but this week US president Barack Obama’s administration will be presented options that could see both cancelled......

Author: Rob Coppinger

Date: 11 August 2009

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Sadly this is turning out much as I expected but I'd kept a hanky in anticipation of wiping the egg off my face. I can now put it away! But can I? "ARES 5 light, ARES IV," etc..."DIRECT 4.0" methinks. Very much in line with DIRECT proposals. It would appear that the backroom boys at NASA are being noticed at last and those jerks at ATK will have to be content with a reduced input. If the DIRECT estimates are reasonably accurate this can be done Obama permitting. Well, the ATK SRB test on 25th August had better be a resounding success, as must I-X in November. Make those eggs hard boiled! BTW Rob, just wanted to say that despite good old Flight Inter' being a weekly it's increasing becoming my main source of up-to-date news: your input especially. You're appreciaterd out here, believe me!