Meh, Griffin can't possibly be belittled any more than he does himself by appearing on This Week In Space in his pajamas....
Least he wasn't wearing a singlet.I noticed he said something along the lines of: I am a supporter of commercial space development, but I think the government should continue to enable space exploration by building rockets.Doesn't building rockets like Ares impede the efforts of companies like SpaceX, by eating up a chunk of the market for LVs capable of delivering crew and cargo to LEO?
No because it was only meant as backup in case they were not ready.
Quote from: marsavian on 02/21/2010 12:46 pmNo because it was only meant as backup in case they were not ready.Isn't it ironic that the "backup" booster would be ready years later than the ones it would serve as backup for?
Quote from: ugordan on 02/21/2010 01:47 pmQuote from: marsavian on 02/21/2010 12:46 pmNo because it was only meant as backup in case they were not ready.Isn't it ironic that the "backup" booster would be ready years later than the ones it would serve as backup for?Not yet proven. If Ares I funding hadn't been raided for RTF and it got the funds it was meant to in the first place it would be much further along. Also its design was purposely changed to have more commonality with its bigger brother which introduced more delay. It's not meant for ISS, that's just a byproduct that falls out of the design.