Other notes of interest in the presentation relates to the lunar element of the Constellation plan, with a change to the Ares V-Y test flight, an unmanned Orion 13 mission that will be a fly-by of the moon
hyper_snyper - 18/1/2008 5:35 AMMoney, money everywhere and not a dime for NASA.
stockman - 18/1/2008 11:00 AMI know there are a ton of problems and disappointments here but symbolically this one strikes me the most. 40 years ago we DARED to launch a vehicle for only the second time with a manned crew to swing around the moon and come home safely. 4
Jim - 18/1/2008 11:05 AMQuotestockman - 18/1/2008 11:00 AMI know there are a ton of problems and disappointments here but symbolically this one strikes me the most. 40 years ago we DARED to launch a vehicle for only the second time with a manned crew to swing around the moon and come home safely. 4Apollo 8 was the 3rd flight of the Saturn V and the 6th flight of a full up Apollo spacecraft
edkyle99 - 18/1/2008 4:11 PMIn my view, the most telling sentence in the article is the following. "... Ares I's roll past missions to the ISS is under evaluation due to performance issues."If I understand this correctly, NASA may now be planning to spend billions to develop a launch vehicle, and the big infrastructure to build and fly it, while simultaneously planning NOT to use it!If true, this would be a fiasco large enough to become a campaign issue - large enough to foment Congressional anger - perhaps large enough to end the program entirely. - Ed Kyle
savuporo - 18/1/2008 11:05 AMQuotehyper_snyper - 18/1/2008 5:35 AMMoney, money everywhere and not a dime for NASA.More like money money money for NASA and all down the toilet.Suppose an extra ten billion was added to NASA budget for this year and for the rest of the future. You think that Ares I would somehow magically fly tomorrow ?
savuporo - 18/1/2008 10:05 AMSuppose an extra ten billion was added to NASA budget for this year and for the rest of the future. You think that Ares I would somehow magically fly tomorrow ?
haywoodfloyd - 18/1/2008 4:43 PMIt harkens back to the development days of the Shuttle when the budget kept getting squeezed until all we had left was a vehicle which was a shadow of its former self.
Yegor - 18/1/2008 4:39 PM"Altair development - slipping two years"Does it mean that the Lunar Landing is 2022 now?