On Nov 17, 3:50*pm, David Spain wrote:
Constellation is likely DOA. (Dead under Obama Admininstration)

NASA will be lucky to get Ares-I and Orion.

Maybe NASA will be re-directed to the COTS approach and contract
launch services with a man-rated the Dragon capsule?

Would Obama consider spining off ISS services to a quasi-public
corporation ala Amtrak and move NASA over to being more like
its NACA predecessor?

Dave

whatever form it might take, the ISS still needs a boat load of money
to operate, money that neither the administration nor the congress is
willing to provide. I simply don't see anybody other than the
government to pick up such a large, from a business point of view,
unprofitable tab.