Brian Thorn 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.

I don't mean to tell them to cancel the whole thing, just not to spend
any more money on it till the budget gets the thumbs-up or down.
Right now it looks like they are trying to rip off the taxpayers by
running up bills on a thing that is supposed to be dead.
Doesn't it fall under Bolden's purview to tell them to wait a bit?

Pat