I’m not proud. Well, not too proud. I admit I was wrong about the Ares 1-X – it seemed to work fine without excessive vibration and probably will work as a human rated booster. I still would have liked to see a shuttle derived main core, but given that time is tight and they have already spent a bucketload on the development of this beast, it should probably proceed.
I would have liked to see a Willy Ley/Arthur Clarke,/John Campbell class of shuttle.
Of course their frames are interred in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with too many young men and women.
fusilier, SMOF jg. (ret.)
James 2:24