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Using the SSME to counter the base-heating issues that Ares-V designs are currently facing, you have a man-rated engine that is currently flying with a great flight history.
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Falcon 9 is designed as man-rated from the start; upgrading Dragon from cargo to men has also been designed in from the start.
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Sure, the heavy versions could, but not with the safety factor of a man-rated vehicle.
Who Should Be The Next Administrator of NASA? - NASA Watch 2009
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Ariane-V was designed from the start as a man-rated vehicle (as Ares-1), Atlas-V and Delta-IV were not.
Jeff Hanley's Latest Update From the Denial Zone - NASA Watch 2009
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I was even more impressed with the fact that they proposed an alternate, man-rated launcher.
Today's Video: NASA Shuttle-derived Sidemount Heavy Launch Vehicle Concept - NASA Watch 2009
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Also, it doesn't bode well when we also consider recent statements on EELV possibly requiring 7 years to be man-rated or, also, trade-off analyses showing that the unit cost per launch for an EELV-heavy is lower than Ares-1 contingent on there being no Ares-5.
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In addition there was a belief that we could use a man-rated SRB as a launcher and that man-rating an EELV would be long and expensive.
Who Should Be The Next Administrator of NASA? - NASA Watch 2009
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If you look at the floundering that occurred on our next man-rated launch vehicle 10-15 years before he came in, there is stark contrast to what has been happening lately.
Who Should Be The Next Administrator of NASA? - NASA Watch 2009
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Another alternate version of a man-rated shuttle-C would be to place the Orion crew module and service module on top of the current shuttle fuel tank (joined with an appropriate spacecraft adapter) while the orbital lunar transfer vehicle would be housed above the side-mounted shuttle engines.
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Ariane-V was designed from the start as a man-rated vehicle (as Ares-1), Atlas-V and Delta-IV were not.
Jeff Hanley's Latest Update From the Denial Zone - NASA Watch 2009
alexz commented on the word man-rated
reliable enough for people to use. (sometimes written manrated)
Man-rated software, "software which is in control of systems and environments upon which human life is critically dependent," must be highly reliable. - ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20100033619.pdf
January 30, 2015