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It's too heavy and too complex to do the one job it absolutely must do successfully every time - get people to & from orbit - and do all the other things it's being asked to do - carry cargo, do science expiriments, push the ISS around etc. We need to get rid of this turkey and build a smaller, lighter people-carrier, and leave the cargo-hauling to some other, unmanned vehicle. If privatization is the way to do that, great.

One day it will be practical to carry people, cargo & expiriments on one, manned reuseable vehicle. Either that day hasn't arrived, or this isn't the vehicle.

This must be a very sad day indeed for India and Israel.

You may not believe this but my dad used to subscribe to both Newsweak and Time - at the same time! An NEA member BTW.

It's too heavy and too complex to do the one job it absolutely must do successfully every time - get people to & from orbit - and do all the other things it's being asked to do - carry cargo, do science expiriments, push the ISS around etc. We need to get rid of this turkey and build a smaller, lighter people-carrier, and leave the cargo-hauling to some other, unmanned vehicle. If privatization is the way to do that, great.

Exactly. And at the same time, the "cargo carriers" could have been designed to become a part of the ISS.