Science News is reporting that President-Elect Obama's Transition Team is seeking possible changes to the Ares and Orion projects. The information requested by the Obama Team include how much money would be saved by canceling the Ares 1 and Orion projects, but no real alterations in other NASA projects. The Ares 1 and 5 rockets have been plagued with problems, and Orion has come under fire for poor design. Should Orion be redesigned to be used on current rocket technology? Is the Mars Science Labratory worth scaling back? Should we go to the Moon again?
One positive note in the article, Obama's Team is looking into green lighting several Earth science projects which have been ignored over the last few years.
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Two words... SPACE ELEVATOR...
And Artificial Gravity.
Everything else will follow.
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