Bye-bye Moon program, hello ISS to 2020

"Me" wrote in message
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I hope oyu're right, but I'm pessimestic that anything will be ready that
quickly.


On Jan 27, 4:01 pm, OM wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:56:13 -0800, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Ares-1, Ares-V, Constellation - all dead:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-a...-budget27-2010...
Possibly a heavy lift booster at some future point.
But ISS will be manned till 2020 instead of 2015.

...Best reasons I've heard for impeaching Obama, if not lynching him.
How the hell does he expect us to get to ISS? Keep buying Soyuz
flights?


Simple answer can be found if you would keep up on events.
NASA is going to buy rides from US commercial providers, meaning
Spacex and others. Proposals will start coming out of the woodworks
from Boeing, LM and others. Ares I wasn't going to be ready for 5
years or more, which is more than enough for the standard aerospace
contractors to have some ready or for Spacex to get things right.