CLV soon? Not according to the latest article I've seen

From a Florida Today article
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbc...608270331/1007

An initial Ares 1 test flight is scheduled for April 2009.
The rocket will consist of a four-segment shuttle solid rocket
booster with an inert fifth segment, a dummy upper stage and
ballast in place of an Orion spacecraft.
In the event of a failure, NASA will have the option of
launching a second test flight six months later.

An Ares 1 test flight with a five-segment solid rocket booster
and an upper stage powered by a single J-2 engine is scheduled
for July 2012.

This certainly seems slow. Six years until a 5 segment SRB flight? This
"shuttle derived" hardware is looking more and more like a pig every day
(pork for ATK).

I'd like to know how long it would take to design, build, and test fly a
high thrust LH2/LOX upper stage for Atlas V and/or Delta IV.

Jeff
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