Yes, if one poured enough money into Constellation, no doubt it could have been made to “work,” if by that you mean get a few government employees to the moon at a billion dollars a ticket. It never had a prayer of contributing to the opening up of space to the rest of us, any more than Apollo did.
And unfortunately, while the name might be gone, the program zombies on until we can kill off the Senate Launch System and Orion-by-another-name.
…in academia. But if you point it out, and urge them to be judge people by the content of their character instead of the color of their skin, you’re the racist.
Is extreme bank regulation a key to the lousy economy? The fact that there’s a ton of uncertainty about Frank-Dodd doesn’t help, either. And of course, Sarbanes-Oxley has been a disaster for start ups.