NASA's Ares partners say they're open to moon-rocket ideas

Orlando Sentinel ^ | 07/09/09 | Robert Block

[KevinDavis]

CAPE CANAVERAL — The aerospace giants contracted to help build NASA's next-generation spaceships are quietly hedging their bets and stepping back from the Ares rockets that the agency has staked its future on after the shuttle retires next year.

In recent weeks, Lockheed Martin Corp. and the Boeing Co. have reached out to NASA officials, lawmakers and a presidentially appointed panel reviewing America's human-spaceflight plan, expressing a willingness to change plans or offering alternatives to the rockets that until recently they strongly advocated.

[KevinDavis]

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

I say NASA merge with the military. The military has the money and the technology.

[buccaneer81]

Hey, Kevin...off topic, but if you haven’t already, read “Moonfall” by Jack McDevitt. I just finished it and it’s fairly relevant.

[driftdiver]

“I say NASA merge with the military. The military has the money and the technology.”

They have neither.

[Costumed Vigilante]

Community organization requires no space travel. Only complete, hopeless, local control.

A verbis ad verbera

[Young Werther]

Fly the future shuttle tanks into orbit. The ecess fuel coud be used to carry these tanks to the lunar surface where they can become the rudimentary shelters for Clarke Base!

Ad Astra Y'all!

[GraceG]

Here is my idea, If you can get to the moon you own part of the moon.

Private ownership rights and a bit if a tax writeoff.

[wastedyears]

Private ownership rights and a bit if a tax writeoff.

A heck of a write off.