kraisee - 20/4/2008 9:18 PMI would expect the whole program to be shut down if that flight goes wrong in any spectacular fashion.The biggest danger to DIRECT *not* being adopted now, IMHO, is for something else to come along and derail the whole exploration effort - reducing all the efforts to just Orion on Delta-IV Heavy flying nowhere other than ISS, with all Moon/Mars/Beyond discontinued.Ross.
Lee Jay - 20/4/2008 11:52 PMWhen is all this going to happen, Ross? I gather that sometime this summer or fall, the ability to construct new 8.4 meter tanks at MAF is going to be lost, and it will therefore become much harder to modify that line into supporting the DIRECT architecture.