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**Jorge R. Frank** · February 27th 10, 04:33 PM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.history

OM wrote:
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:09:09 +0000 (UTC), (Craig
Bingman) wrote:

Despiriting.... I was really hoping that NASA would at least be able to keep
Orion going, or something like it.

...The hints are - at least what I'm hearing out of JSC - is that they
hope to at least keep the Orion capsule alive so that it can be used
on these commercial boosters that the Obama misadministration believes
will magically appear from the defense contractors.

There's nothing "magical" about the Delta IV and Atlas V. They've both
been flying for years.