Ares Quarterly Progress Report # 16

[sedna69a]

Obama killed the program for only one real reason. To deny Bush a legacy for political reasons. :(

[sedna69a]

Where's #17?

[eaglebeak4]

If anyone trys to cancel this I will be very mad!

"To Mars!'

[AmunExorbis]

@eaglebeak4

Yeah like G.W.Bush was so enthusiastic about it.

(don't even bother to blame Obama about is, he simply has to clean Bush's mess first)

[davisgreen2020]

If NASA is to go beyond L.E.O at long last ! It will need a Ares V HLV !! It is very sad that Constellation is canceled ! I hope Congress overrules President Obama on this ! And Only this ! Keep the Space Shuttle going until there is a replacement ( Sen. John Glenn ), And keep and give the funding needed to NASA complete Constellation ( Neil Armstrong) !!!

[TheFutureIsRightHere]

Come on NASA, get the public excited about space again, so that you'll get the fundings to return to the moon and later to Mars!

[TheFutureIsRightHere]

If NASA is short on budget today, can't they simply continue the Apollo program today? Wouldn't that be a lot more cheaper to use the Saturn V rocket and the rest of the Apollo hardware that was present during the late 1960s and early 1970s? Meaning that if we use the technology of the 60s and 70s today instead of the technology of the year of 2010, the price tag would be sufficiently lower!

[MattBlak1]

@TheFutureIsRightHere NO. Thats a myth. Tooling, engines, launchpads, PEOPLE & Companies, even many materials used in the 1960s dont exist now. It would cost NEARLY AS MUCH as Constellation (CXP) to resurrect Apollo. CXP WAS bringing back Saturn's J-2 engine in improved version: it might still get cancelled too. CXP was going to be better than Apollo, but there was less than HALF the money required going into it. Even slightly cheaper Apollo could not be afforded with the money NASA was given.

[TheFutureIsRightHere]

@MattBlak1 Agreed.

[theflinx]

It would be crime to cancel this.

[rjholling]

@theflinx It would be an even greater crime not to cancel it. Launch costs of $1 billion + for Ares I is more than the shuttle which has an order of magnitude greater capability than a tin can watered down Orion.

[moneyman10k]

the producers of this video get credit for making a really cool video. unfortunately that is the only good news as ares still deserves cancellation

[Tyrannobeast]

I'm interested in seeing a J-2X test at Stennis. When would this take place, and would the test be open to the public?

[cracylord]

in the FY 2011 Budget for the NASA it says that the Constellation Program is canceled but you are still developing new stuff for the ares - now my question is why?

[Boy75402]

@cracylord

CxP isn't cancelled (yet), and the FY2011 budget is only a proposal. NASA is required by law to continue CxP R&D until mandated to do otherwise by Congress, which has yet to make up their mind on what path to take.

[cracylord]

@Boy75402

nice, thanks for answer

[johnjaksic61]

Keep up the good work----NASA and others!

[MonsterLopes]

Great work