On Apr 15, 10:34*am, "Jeff Findley"
wrote:
I'm encouraged by the section on a "Heavy Lift Rocket" this:

* *Developing a Heavy Lift Rocket, with a Specific Decision in 2015,
* *to Expand Our Reach in Space: To demonstrate a concrete timetable
* *and commitment for expanding human exploration further, the
* *President is announcing that, in addition to investing in
* *transformative heavy-lift technologies, he will commit to making
* *a specific decision in 2015 on the development of a new heavy-lift
* *rocket architecture.

I'm not sure what's so encouraging about this. He's promising that at
the end of his second term -- which he may not actually have -- he'll
think about it. The Shuttle is still being retired at the end of this
year, and Constellation is still out of the running. So for at least
5 years, we won't even have plans for manned or heavy-lift vehicles,
and then it will be an indefinite period of time until the approved
design is actually built.

What am I missing here?