Is Ares program dead? NASA told to explore new ways to reach the moon

Is Ares program dead? NASA told to explore new ways to reach the moon
"...For more than a week now, engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., including some working on Ares I, have been pulled from their current duties to study creation of a smaller version of the Ares V that could carry both crew and heavy equipment...."
Reference: www.latimes.com

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