On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 02:56:19 -0000, in a place far, far away, Robert
Love made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such
a way as to indicate that:

In .com lifeform1@
charter.net wrote:

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!

I don't know that it was that big a mistake.

The troll was attempting to be sarcastic.