On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:33:40 -0500, in a place far, far away,
"jonathan" made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:


"Brian Thorn" wrote in message
.. .
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:50:31 -0500, "jonathan"
wrote:


You'd put people on top of a delta heavy???

Are you nuts?

Why not? Delta IV's only failure so far was an underperformance that
would have been easily compensated for by the Orion SM propulsion.
Seems hugely more sensible to me than riding on top of a "shake,
rattle and roll" Ares I.

That may be, but the first launch I watched of the big delta, the only
thought going through my head.....'not for all the tea in China would
I ever get on top of that'!

And you ignorantly think that you'd have a different feeling with Ares
1?