Well, I never liked the Ares-I. A single SRB as a first stage doesn't convince me. Especially when the Atlas-V or Delta-IV rockets were perfectly fitted for the task. That one was a bad idea, and I also am sceptical about the ATK "Liberty" rocket. Not the best concept ever.
Orion is a young project. Hopefully the live tests are going to be conducted in the upcoming years.
NASA is working with SpaceX anyways. The Dragon might become an handy space taxi ; the Orion is designed for scientific exploration of space purposes, with - I hope - leading edge technology in everything to justify the costs. Innovation and in-situ testing will be required to go to Mars or beyond.
And you know very well that they are not going to launch the SLS with a 10 tons payload . Again, hardware is in developpement, when you dig the jungle NASA site, you find information about that. For sure they are bad at PR, thats not new. But after all, they are not supposed to sell something.
So again NASA is going to work with SpaceX if they continue to achieve their milestones. But the focus of SpaceX should be to offer the safest access to LEO (currently the ISS is the only destination) at the lower costs possible. And let NASA work on the exploration of space, that requires leading-edge technologies.
Orion is a young project. Hopefully the live tests are going to be conducted in the upcoming years.
NASA is working with SpaceX anyways. The Dragon might become an handy space taxi ; the Orion is designed for scientific exploration of space purposes, with - I hope - leading edge technology in everything to justify the costs. Innovation and in-situ testing will be required to go to Mars or beyond.
And you know very well that they are not going to launch the SLS with a 10 tons payload . Again, hardware is in developpement, when you dig the jungle NASA site, you find information about that. For sure they are bad at PR, thats not new. But after all, they are not supposed to sell something.
So again NASA is going to work with SpaceX if they continue to achieve their milestones. But the focus of SpaceX should be to offer the safest access to LEO (currently the ISS is the only destination) at the lower costs possible. And let NASA work on the exploration of space, that requires leading-edge technologies.