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  1. Re:There's another way... on Further Details From Soyuz Mishap · · Score: 1

    True, it is only on paper but so is Ares at this point. Two of the main components are ready to go right now and the J2-X engine is taken off the critical path, which is the big holdup on Ares. If you read in depth, you'll see that it's put together by people at NASA using the same methodologies that NASA used for ESAS.

  2. There's another way... on Further Details From Soyuz Mishap · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There's an alternative to waiting 5 years after the final shuttle launch - check out http://www.directlauncher.com./ It'd be ready 2 years after the final shuttle launch and it would cost a heck of a lot less than Ares...

  3. DIRECT solves the weight issue... on Will The Next Generation of Spacecraft Land In the Water? · · Score: 1

    There's an alternative plan to the Ares-I which would solve all of the weight issues associated with the Orion capsule - it's called Nasa DIRECT: http://directlauncher.com/. There's a huge PDF with the proposal done by people from within NASA - it'd be faster, cheaper, and safer. It'd get us back into space by 2012 instead of the 2014/2015 timeframe.

  4. There is already a proposal to fix this... on Narrowing the Space Flight Gap · · Score: 1

    It's called DIRECT, which was created by people from within NASA, and would have flights ready by 2012. Read the proposal and wonder why we're not doing this - it almost makes too much sense: http://directlauncher.com/