*From:* Pat Flannery
*Date:* Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:55:53 -0800

Michael Gallagher wrote:

Why? What's wrong with Orion? What was controversial about that
design?

It's unnecessarily large and heavy for a simple orbital passenger
ferry mission, due to its design being optimized originally for the
Moon mission.

Pat

So what?

Wings, tailfin and a triplet of SSMEs were unnecessarily heavy for a
simple orbital passenger ferry!