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Ares I already delayed?
I have found this article in www.flightglobal.com:
http://tinyurl.com/z8qrg The headline is: "NASA's hopes of manned flights before 2014 are dashed as Orion programme hits first hold-up". |
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"apozo" wrote in message oups.com... I have found this article in www.flightglobal.com: http://tinyurl.com/z8qrg The headline is: "NASA's hopes of manned flights before 2014 are dashed as Orion programme hits first hold-up". " While McKenzie was sure his company could deliver the Orion for a 2012 manned flight, at the 31 August contractor selection announcement Project Orion office manager Caris Hatfeld said "a full and final" Ares I test was unlikely before 2012 in order to complete the launcher's upper stage and its Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne J-2X engine. That 2012 test flight will not be manned. " So this "shuttle derived" launch vehicle won't have a full-up test until 2012, six years from now, and it's unlikely to fly manned until after 2012. One more reason to oppose Ares... Jeff -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - B. Franklin, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919) |
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"Jeff Findley" wrote: "apozo" wrote in message oups.com... I have found this article in www.flightglobal.com: http://tinyurl.com/z8qrg The headline is: "NASA's hopes of manned flights before 2014 are dashed as Orion programme hits first hold-up". " While McKenzie was sure his company could deliver the Orion for a 2012 manned flight, at the 31 August contractor selection announcement Project Orion office manager Caris Hatfeld said "a full and final" Ares I test was unlikely before 2012 in order to complete the launcher's upper stage and its Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne J-2X engine. That 2012 test flight will not be manned. " So this "shuttle derived" launch vehicle won't have a full-up test until 2012, six years from now, and it's unlikely to fly manned until after 2012. One more reason to oppose Ares... Jeff Ares provides too many jobs and props up too many careers. It will not be cancelled unless private crewed spacecraft are flying rings around ISS, and perhaps not until Ares is killing people. |
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In article , Jeff Findley
wrote: So this "shuttle derived" launch vehicle won't have a full-up test until 2012, six years from now, and it's unlikely to fly manned until after 2012. That's the 'soon' part of 'safe, simple, soon'. The other parts are just as accurate. -- David M. Palmer (formerly @clark.net, @ematic.com) |
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