Total Members Voted: 322
Voting closed: 06/30/2014 11:24 pm
(Although STS/capsule was once looked at.)
Delta IV/Orion. (more likely than half of your options)Also, you wrote STS/Orion when I think you mean SLS/Orion. (Although STS/capsule was once looked at.)
Quote from: Robotbeat on 01/07/2014 10:46 pmDelta IV/Orion. (more likely than half of your options)Also, you wrote STS/Orion when I think you mean SLS/Orion. (Although STS/capsule was once looked at.)Orion will never leave the ground!
Quote from: mb199 on 01/07/2014 11:15 pmQuote from: Robotbeat on 01/07/2014 10:46 pmDelta IV/Orion. (more likely than half of your options)Also, you wrote STS/Orion when I think you mean SLS/Orion. (Although STS/capsule was once looked at.)Orion will never leave the ground!Delta IV is highly unlikely to ever be "manned rated" in the eyes of NASA. Even if the green light were given today for a manned rated Delta IV, the others would still fly first, which is the topic at hand. I agree that a manned Orion will likely never fly. If there were actual real AND funded missions for Orion I would be more optimistic.
Quote from: AS-503 on 01/07/2014 11:24 pmQuote from: mb199 on 01/07/2014 11:15 pmQuote from: Robotbeat on 01/07/2014 10:46 pmDelta IV/Orion. (more likely than half of your options)Also, you wrote STS/Orion when I think you mean SLS/Orion. (Although STS/capsule was once looked at.)Orion will never leave the ground!Delta IV is highly unlikely to ever be "manned rated" in the eyes of NASA. Even if the green light were given today for a manned rated Delta IV, the others would still fly first, which is the topic at hand. I agree that a manned Orion will likely never fly. If there were actual real AND funded missions for Orion I would be more optimistic.I strongly disagree. I've already seen a hint of some internal support for Orion on Delta IV, and after a successful unmanned Orion-on-DeltaIV launch this year, just you watch that grow. I know it's "InternetTrue"TM that Delta IV is "unsuitable."That said, I agree Falcon/Dragon will leave the ground with crew well before Orion does.
The poll sure looks like a real squeaker so far.
SpaceX does have a big head start with the cargo Dragon. I think modifying it to a manned vehicle gives them the edge.
I've already seen a hint of some internal support for Orion on Delta IV
Quote from: Robotbeat on 01/07/2014 11:41 pm I've already seen a hint of some internal support for Orion on Delta IVThat would have been good to have circa 2007.
What purpose to Orion on Ares I?
That would imply 1.5 architecture, which we know has been *dead* since CxP was cancelled.For example, an Orion on Delta IV means an Orion to LEO (or high eccentric LEO like the upcoming test flight).As you well know, Orion is not an LEO specific spacecraft. In fact it has been touted time and again as a superior spacecraft to the LEO competition (rightfully so), but it needs SLS (or a return to 1.5 or 2.0 launch architecture) to be BEO.So Orion launching on a Delta IV is NOT going to BEO, but you knew that already.