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<p>The conflict isn't just in the space forums anymore, it's broken out into the MSM....</p><p>Link....</p><p><strong><font size="2">Quote:</font></strong></p><p><strong><font size="2">NASA engineers work on alternative moon rocket</font></strong></p><p><font size="2">(AP) -- By day, the engineers work on NASA's new Ares moon rockets. By night, some go undercover to work on a competing design. These dissenting scientists and their backers insist they have created an alternative rocket that would be safer, cheaper and easier to build than the two Ares spacecraft that will replace the space shuttle.</font></p><p><span><font size="2">They call their project Jupiter, and like Ares, it's a brainchild of workers at the Marshall Space Flight Center and other NASA facilities. The engineers involved are doing the work on their own time and mostly anonymously, with the help of retirees and other space enthusiasts. </font></span></p><p><span><font size="2">A key Ares project manager dismisses their design as little more than a sketch on a napkin that won't work. <br /><br />A spokesman for the competing effort, Ross Tierney, said concerned engineers at NASA and some contractors want a review of the Ares plans but can't speak out for fear of being demoted, transferred or fired. <br /> /></font><span> </span></span></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>