Ares I Rocket Rumored To Be Too Heavy

eldavojohn writes "In an article entitled "Constellation Battles the Blogosphere," problems with the Ares I lift vehicle are dispelled by NASA. An e-mail containing the rumor that the payload was a metric ton too heavy spurred this post which caused a lot of sidelines speculation that NASA might be setting themselves up for failure and simply need to start over. From the article, '[M]any who carp from the sidelines do not seem to understand the systems engineering process. They instead want to sensationalize any issue to whatever end or preferred outcome they wish," wrote Jeff Hanley the NASA official leading the development of the rockets and spacecraft the United States is building to replace the space shuttle and to return to the Moon.' The article also mentions that NASA looked at 10,000 to 20,000 different iterations of designs in their "Exploration Systems Architecture Study." As armchair speculators of space exploration, do our posts & blogs create negative fallout for NASA or is public criticism like this healthy for keeping government agencies in line?"

Re:Leave it to the professionals

[Anonymous Coward]

How hard can it be? It's not Rocket Science!

Too heavy?

[Andrewkov]

Ares I Rocket Rumored to be Too Heavy

So are most Slashdotters!

You saw it coming

[Sneakernets]

I say nasa is suffering from... (wait for it)
Projectile Dysfunction.
Thank you, try the fish.

Devil's Advocate...

[nacturation]

Why not ask questions of the people at Microsoft? They have been designing, building, and testing operating systems for decades. Most arm-chair Linux zealots have no practical experience in doing things on the scale Microsoft does. Asking questions instead of making claims that Microsoft has screwed up would help us learn more about what Microsoft is doing and, perhaps, help them look at what they are doing from a different view-point.

Sounds like we need to be open-source in our approach to communicating with Microsoft - ask questions, offer ideas, create a solution that all may benefit from rather than firing the cannons of FUD.