Ares-1 delayed 1 year?

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:55:45 -0600, in a place far, far away, Pat
Flannery made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

You make heads or tails of this mess:
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/20...internall.html

Whoever the new president is will have to deal with this. The first
thing that I'd do is form a commission to review the "analysis" that
led to ESAS. I suspect that they'll find that the sixty-day study was
extremely flawed and driven by the biases of its participants (Mike's
OSC mafia and Horowitz), and that it ignored all of the data provided
by the CE&R contracts.