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

michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Kent) wrote in
news:xhCxe.42$0u4.351@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> Reed Snellenberger <rsnellenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Close. They want to close the gap between Shuttle and CEV. But
> they're beginning to come together around an amendment that would
> extend Shuttle flights until CEV is ready, not move CEV up.
>
>> They also
>> make it pretty clear that they trust Griffin's technical judgement.
>
> They did until they started seeing its pricetag. That will change.
> Just watch.
>
>> 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.
>
> This from an agency (NASA) and a center (Marshall) that took *six
> years* to get X-37 from viewgraph to captive carry test? I think you
> over- estimate their chances.

To be fair, X-37 is a program that "died" and was brought back under DARPA
auspices, not NASA. Had the program been under continuous development, I
don't think it would have taken six years to get where it is now.


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