Reading through the NASA fisal year 2010 budget exporation systems subsection it says that Orion crew exploration vehicle's preliminary design review will be in the fourth quarter, when it was planned for mid-2009 and Ares I-X will be in August, not July but this had been expected due to the need for two Space Shuttles on the two launch pads for STS-125. See below a screen grab from the budget showing requests for Ares I crew launch vehicle additional work. Ares seems to have won the lion's share of the ARRA monies with an extra $350 million over FY2009 while Orion is flat
on May 28, 2009 5:58 PM | Reply
Since we're dealing with boilerplate spacecraft & existing SRB's in initial testing, what's taking so long? All the above should be completed by now. Work for work's sake...On track for cancellation!