Marshall Director Calls for Unity Behind Ares, Orion

摘要

The director of NASA's main rocket development center urged aerospace contractors to get with the program and stop second-guessing the decision to use space shuttle-heritage hardware to launch future astronaut crews to Earth orbit and beyond. Speaking Feb. 20 at a Capitol Hill breakfast sponsored by the Space Transportation Association, Marshall Space Flight Center Director David King warned that abandoning the Ares 1 crew launch vehicle and Ares 5 heavy-lift rocket designs being developed as the cornerstones of NASA's human space exploration program is not a realistic option.