Pat Flannery writes:

I'm still suspicious of that Ares name; it's very odd for a civilian
spacecraft, unless the reference is to Mars, the Roman god of war.

I still have the suspicion that the DoD had some spiffy ideas what to do
with a launcher capable of 60t of payload and this was the sole reason
for Bush to talk of going to the Moon and Mars...


Jochem

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longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away."
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