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February 6th 10, 11:22 PM
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NASA 2011 budget and Ares-1
*From:* Pat Flannery
*Date:* Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:55:53 -0800 Michael Gallagher wrote: Why? What's wrong with Orion? What was controversial about that design? It's unnecessarily large and heavy for a simple orbital passenger ferry mission, due to its design being optimized originally for the Moon mission. Pat So what? Wings, tailfin and a triplet of SSMEs were unnecessarily heavy for a simple orbital passenger ferry! 
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