Re: Griffin Wants Inline SDLV and 5 Segment SRB/CEV

"Kim Keller" <kekeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> "Tom Cuddihy" <tom.cuddihy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> The fact that Mike Griffen apparently already knows what he wants and
>> how he wants to do it is tremendously encouraging to me. I might
>> actually see humans on the moon again before I die. hallejulah.
>
> Not with this plan. Griffin just shot the VSE in the foot. There's no
> way he can afford to develop SDLV, the "schtick", AND the CEV on the
> budget available to him. Nice boner, Griffin. Congress is gonna puke
> when they see the bill for this jobs program.
>

Congress has made it pretty clear that they want the schedule for CEV to be
accelerated so that it's available for crew launches by 2010. They also
make it pretty clear that they trust Griffin's technical judgement. I
don't suspect funding will be too big of an issue.

It wouldn't entirely surprise me to see the first qualification launche of
the 5-segment stick booster (no upper stage) by late 2006, using Pad 39B
and the third MLP as infrastructure.



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