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Congressional Pleading For Ares 1

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
August 12, 2009

Griffith Continues to Press Administration on Ares Program – Congressman stands firm on commitment to Constellation (includes Letter to President Obama)
“In September 2008, Ares I completed a key milestone with its Preliminary Design Review (PDR). PDR is the final step of the initial design process, and thereby a crucial milestone, during which the overall project verifies that the preliminary design can meet all requirements within acceptable risk limits and within cost and schedule constraints, and identifies technical and management challenges and addresses approaches for eliminating or mitigating them. Current plans call for Ares I to progress to the point of obtaining Agency approval by early 2010 to proceed to Critical Design Review.”
Ares PDR Was Not As Smooth As NASA Says It Was, earlier post
“Too many people involved in the planning phase, meetings were too large”; “The integrated vechicle review did not present the element design issues (RIDs) so it was difficult to know if the parts added up to a rocket that will fly”; “The review occurred to close to the element PDRs, This did not allow for some of the element level rids to addressed or predeclared in documents”; “Much of the documentation presented for PDR was not mature enough for PDR. This limited an effective of these documents and left the impression that the PDR was rushed.”; “The RID screening rules and procedures seemed to change from day to day, like we were making it up as we went along.”; “Insufficient time was allotted to review the documents.”; “Not allowing RIDs to be written against the SRD and declaring it a finished document prior to the PDR was just arrogant and wrong. This was further evidenced and confused by the introduction of two version of the SRD, showing that it was in fact being changed behind the scenes.”
Keith’s note: I wonder if Rep. Griffith’s staff had any “help” from MSFC in the writing of this letter…

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