The US Space Program

For the last forty years the US manned space program has been in a rut nickel and dimed to death by either by lack of imagination or deliberate purpose throted a case in point the Orion capsule is only the old Apollo on strodes carrying six astronaunts instead of three and the SaturnV is spilt in two the Ares 1 and Ares V. Ares V was not needed since we have the Atlas V and the Delta IV for heavy lift all you need is to strap the solid fuel rockets to these rockets for extra lifting power. Better yet develop the propulsion system of Thomas Townsend Brown and his German contemperies. If we had who knows were we would be maybe journeying to the stars or atlest traveling at will throuout the solar system. What a waste of opputunaties all these forty years we have missed what a crime.