On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:52:56 -0500, "Jeff Findley"
wrote:

At least Keith Cowing raises the question, why is NASA spending years and
billions of dollars developing Ares I and Ares V when they could have picked
an architecture which used existing EELV's?

....Because they have to give Cowing *something* to bitch, whine, moan,
groan and otherwise claim conspiracy and/or cover-up. It was part of
the terms of his severance package when NASA sacked him, IIRC.

OM
--
]=====================================[
] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [
] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [
] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [
]=====================================[