A Media Campaign to Save Ares?

NASA’s Ares partners say they’re open to moon-rocket ideas, Orlando Sentinel
“Early last month, top executives from the major Constellation contractors — Boeing, Lockheed Martin, solid rocket builder ATK and rocket-engine manufacturer Pratt Whitney — were in Washington, vowing to oppose any alternatives. According to industry officials present, former astronaut and Boeing Vice President Brewster Shaw, Lockheed Vice President John Karas and other executives met with the staff of powerful U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby to discuss creating a media campaign to counter Ares I critics and alternative ideas. Shelby, R-Ala., is a fierce protector of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, which is designing the Ares rockets.”