Re: Ares V: Launch Industry Game-Changer


<spacecrate@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ares V has more commercial potential than, perhaps, any rocket NASA
has ever built.

Ares V, if it is built, will never be a commercial launch vehicle. NASA was
banned from selling commercial launches after the Challenger disaster.
Considering NASA's track record, that ban will never be lifted.

Furthermore, the EELV's both have growth potential, and they aren't a paper
rocket like Ares V. If the market (and/or the US government) demands it,
the EELV provider's will respond with higher lift capability.

Jeff
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"Many things that were acceptable in 1958 are no longer acceptable today.
My own standards have changed too." -- Freeman Dyson


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