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>>11975250
>The fact that there wasn't a replacement ready was criminally neglectful.
That's really what made it sting the most.

If something like Ares or Jupiter Direct was ready just months later to maintain flight from US soil to our own station then it would have been less painful, but that long gap was like a kick in the nuts after you were down.

In the end we got SpaceX and Falcon and everything out of it but still, far too much time wasted, languished

If funded the constellation program would have been great

>>11762900
The problem isn't getting rid of Ares its that they replaced it with SLS. They wanted a lunar focus, they were already turning that way with bush with a 2020 goal. Instead we got SLS which just like Ares will complete directly with a commercial vehicle and now we are in 202 with a cancerous SLS program, and are just now refocusing on the moon. We basically wasted 12 years for nothing and with space you can't take that long, the public loses interest.

Why did pic related fail?

>>11730741
You're telling me Ares was doomed from the start?

>>7562890
lel