On Nov 11, 9:50*am, (Joseph Nebus) wrote:
means this

* * * * As, clearly, building a human-carrying spaceplane based on the
work of a robot spacecraft whose first flight might be sometime next year
if all goes well that launches on an expendable rocket will be faster and
cheaper than building a human-carrying capsule spacecraft that launches
on an expendable rocket. *


No, it doesn't.
A. It would have to be a lot larger to carry crew, so no hardware can
be shared
B. This will have a big impact on the launcher, The X-37 in within
the fairing. A larger craft would be in the airstream causing
integration problems
c. The X-37 is missing a lot of crew required systems.

Orion is being delayed by Ares I.