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• Commented on Orion Under Siege

  How 'bout answering my question?...

• Commented on Orion Under Siege

  C'mon, Keith - why the continuing use of innuendo about the chute test? It was a failure of an Army-supplied pallet-drop extraction chute system (as shown when you were finally so kind as to link to a rival site), and...

• Commented on More Sour Grapes From Scott Horowitz

  Thanks for the comments, martin; I'll pass on some real info (if I'm allowed to...). But, it's clear that the US needs active control from the J-2X for control during the first part of its flight, where aero forces are...

• Commented on More Sour Grapes From Scott Horowitz

  No, wait. I've commented here on two other occasions that the AI-X separation event occured exactly as predicted, and was not "anomalous" in any way. So no, I was wrong - it's not ignorance that causes you to keep spouting...

• Commented on More Sour Grapes From Scott Horowitz

  The fact that you keep spouting that the AI-X flight suffered an "anomalous post-staging flight profile" shows how ignorant of the actual details of the Ares Program that you are, Cowing. It was well known that the second stage was...

• Commented on Ares 1-X Staging Issue

  I love all of the armchair-quarterback speculating. The fact of the matter is that the trajectory simulations showed that the upper stage would most likely rotate 90-deg on separation, so this behavior was fully anticipated. There was discussion about shifting...