On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:15:43 -0800, Pat Flannery
wrote:


Shouldn't somebody from NASA have gotten on the phone with them and told
them to freeze work on it when Orion got canceled?

They're forbidden to do so by law, courtesy Congress, which has to
approve any cancellation of Constellation work. So far, they haven't
passed the President's budget request, so NASA must keep going as
before.

Brian