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> <i><font color="yellow">bye bye Mars.....</font>/i><br /><br />I have read recently that Congress is really putting pressure on Griffin to accelerate his plans (kind of funny considering Tom DeLay had to twist arms to get initial approval), so I suspect uncertain technologies are being cut out early. It is easier to add things back later in if you are making good progress.<br /><br />I also read that one of the cargo modes to ISS is being removed from the CEV requirements. I wonder if this is to please the folks who would like to provide a commercial cargo capability to ISS? Alternatively, maybe Congress doesn't want to support large-scale supply capability to ISS to begin with (a back door to backing out of ISS?), so they are taking it out of the CEV requirements.<br /><br />In any case, I think there are strong costs and schedule pressures, and anything that might be seen as superfluous is at risk.</i>