What will the Ares and Orion spacecraft be used for, now that Obama has canceled the Constellation Program?

Nothing. They never got off the drawing board.What will the Ares and Orion spacecraft be used for, now that Obama has canceled the Constellation Program?Perhaps the crew capsule could be used for an emergency return vehicle by six members of the ISS. That is not firm yet.

There are no plans now for the Aries solid fuel rocket, besides using it as a technology reference for commercial rocket developers.What will the Ares and Orion spacecraft be used for, now that Obama has canceled the Constellation Program?Ares I probably won't be built. The same applies for Ares V, though some people in the Congress are pushing for a similar heavy lift launcher.



Under the compromise plan, Orion was supposed to be re-purposed as a "lifeboat" for the International Space Station, but Lockheed Martin wants to finish it with its own money and launch it atop a Dealta IV Heavy launcher:

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