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Is Constellation Dead?

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
January 28, 2010
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Anxiety rises over NASA budget, Huntsville Times
“I’ve read what you’ve read,” said Steve Cook, who ran the Ares rocket component of Constellation at Marshall Space Flight Center from conception until leaving for a job in industry in September. “This is just a lot of speculation,” Cook said Wednesday. “We just need to wait and see what the president does.” Constellation employs about 1,500 contractor employees and 700 government workers at Marshall Space Flight Center, Cook said.”
No space for Constellation? Former NASA Administrator speaks out
“I personally believe the rumors are likely to be true,” said Griffin. “If they’re true it’s a very bad day for the nation and the space program.” Griffin said tens of thousands of people will be effected by cuts.”
Keith’s note: Ares 1 is dead and Ares V is morphing into a commercially-provided HLV for TBD uses. The ISS will be serviced by commerical spacecraft for crew and cargo (not by Orion) and deep space “Flexible Path” missions will almost certainly use something other than Orion for crew transport. As such, there is not going to be much left of “Constellation”.

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