FLORIDA TODAY's Eun Kyung Kim reports from Washington:
The chairman of the presidential review panel evaluating the nation's space flight program dismissed reports that the Ares rocket program is off the table.
"As far as our committee is concerned, it would be completely wrong to say that Ares is dead in the water," said Norman Augustine during a conference call with reporters today.
"We've looked at various versions of Ares, derivatives to Ares, alternatives to Ares, and I think it would be totally incorrect characterization to describe it in any way as dead in the water, or modified, or alive at this point. We're looking at a whole bunch of possibilities."
Augustine, the former chief executive of Lockheed Martin, said his 10-member panel remains on target to submit its report to the White House by the end of August.
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4 comments:
"Or alive at this point", ummm.. read between the lines. This is not looking good for the future of manned spaceflight. Leave it to a presidential committee to squash the future dreams of this country. I bet the nation would sing a different tune if India or China were gearing a manned mission to the moon or Mars.
@Anon
China is gearing for the moon. We're not singing a different toon.
Do you have any evidence to suggest that the Chairman is doing anything but telling the truth about the Committee's activities? Your tinfoil hat is showing.
I agree the white house is on mission and has an agenda in mind for NASA. They are looking for an excuse and the augustine commission gives that no matter what recommendations they make or not even if they just state some never concluding facts.
Since it was a president who sent us to the Moon in the first place, and it was a president who approved to the current plan for Moon-Mars, it seems pretty stupid to assume that a presidential committee would kill anything. Try having an open mind.
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