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“Scrap what I just said about continuing Orion. I just found out it catastrophically failed a drop test this morning. So like Ares I and Ares IV it has proven to be a giant waste of time and money.”

That’s why we call them “tests”. If everything always worked fine from the get-go, there’d never be a need for a “test”.

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That’s why we call them “tests”. If everything always worked fine from the get-go, there’d never be a need for a “test”.

But when the program is on the chopping block and desperately trying for good news a crack up that plays well on YouTube might just be enough to kill the program. From what i heard (read) the parachute didn't open when it got dropped out of the C-17. Not a problem with the Orion or the parachute, but I doubt the Obamabots and congresscritters are going to care about something like facts. They will just see the video of the boilerplate making a new crater in the desert.