Constellation Stakes Are Being Raised

"A second question of whether NASA is illegally trying to terminate Constellation through contract manipulation will be answered in a another report within 60 days, GAO officials said".

THIS will be the kicker. Contractors will soon be laid off/transferred. Hard to interpret that as anything but "termination".

This is BS...they are canceling the program in an Ispo Facto manner....now using the "termination liability" card as the excuse to lay off contractors!

No new program to replace Constellation.Constellation was A Moon program.NASA has no plan for a Moon program. So no problem there.They have a Mars program with stops along the way.

Unfortunately, "will soon be"....has already happened.

Careful folks, Oyler the arbitor of all value and the Hotshot who thinks Obama will give him a job at NASA will be coming after you.

"through contract manipulation"

That's one of those things that could potentially backfire on the CxP folks.

Anybody else remember the "it's all perfectly legal" broken record from various CxP voices?

Jeff Hanley has reportedly been telling his troops not to worry about these contract-related letters since the "Plan B" sorts of work that he has been directing them to do (with Mike Coats' and Charlie Bolden's backing) are really to set the stage for things that "the next Administration" will be doing.

The next Administration ? This guy must really want to be fired.

The faster Cx dies, the faster we can get on with a program with a chance of being implemented.

Let it go guys - it's already terminal. The rest is political theater.

"Jeff Hanley has reportedly been telling his troops not to worry about these contract-related letters since......"

This has not been the case inside Orion. The TL letter effectively stops most work. We hear pink slips are expected any say at LM and the subs.