wrote:
They are now pressure testing orion, just wasting more money on a
capsule idea that probably wouldnt even be rembered, other than as
another example of government waste........

so why havent they buried the dead horse? its rotting and begining to
stink.........

Bob,

This has been explained here before. This is the way government contracting
works. Once money has been allocated and a project is started it runs to
completion of the terms of the contract. And some contracts are actually
written whereby it is often cheaper to let the contract run to completion than
cancel halfway through which causes all sort of special termination/penalty
clauses to kick in.

Space and government contracting works like a big long pipe. You can shut the
spigot off at the top of the pipe but it takes time before the water stops
running out the other end. Oh and by the way, at the spigot valve there isn't
one person in charge but a committee.

Dave