Re: Boeing Selected to Build NASA's Upper Stage for Ares I


"Jacques van Oene" <oene0072@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Boeing will produce from two to six upper stages per year during regular
production, depending on NASA requirements. The initial phase of the
contract calls for several flight-test production units. If all options of
the cost-plus performance contract are exercised through 2017, Boeing
could produce as many as 23 upper stages.

This seems to confirm my belief that Ares I won't be flying very many times
each year.

Jeff
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety"
- B. Franklin, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)


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