On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 21:25:33 -0500, "Jorge R. Frank"
wrote:


Off the shelf, 4 segment SRB possibly, if only minimal changes are
necessary. The 5-segment booster now planned makes no sense
whatsoever. It's pork for Utah, plain and simple. When Ares 5 jumped
to 5-segments and dumped the SSME, NASA should have cut its losses and
switched to one of the EELVs.

Hmm? Ares 5 was always 5-segment. Did you mean Ares 1?

Whoops! Yes.

Brian