On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 17:33:42 -0500, in a place far, far away, Damon
Hill made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

wrote in
roups.com:


Rand Simberg wrote:

So NASA has said "No" to European and other outside participation in
CEV/ Ares. Does anyone care to speculate why?

Because they don't want to put another country on the critical path.

That worked out just terrible when they did that with the ISS.

Core Module, Soyuz, Progress, what a mistake!

Saved the ISS when Shuttle went down.

You say that like it's a good thing.