Entropius

I would not run as a democrat because I do not want to take any corporate money as the only people I want to represent are my constituents.

Democrats' campaigns don't accept corporate money either because it's literally illegal: “Corporations and unions are banned from donating money directly to candidates ("hard money") or national party committees.”

When people talk about corporate money in politics it's usually really just…

1. corporations donating to SuperPACs that have chosen to support someone or some issue (for example a corporation donating to the Sierra Club's PAC which then endorses an pro-environment politician) or

2. employees of corporations donating to a campaign (like when a Walmart employee donates to your campaign it can show up on OpenSecrets.org classified as “Walmart”).

I get your likely voters will be liberals so you need to split Democratic voters away from the Democratic Party to be viable, hence the “Democrats are in bed with corporations*” line but you might want to focus on working with Democrats on campaign finance reform rather than accusing them of campaign finance violations.

Based on previous AMA's, we know some engineers at NASA, ULA, and SpaceX, etc, play the game Kerbal Space Program, but do many astronauts?

1. How much ∆v does an Orion orbiter have? (Or will there be varying configurations with different amounts of ∆v?)

2. In this photo of the Orion capsule there appear to be black tiles all over the upper side. I guessed those are those thermal protection tiles, but they really? And if so, why are they necessary on the upper-side of the capsule?

3. How it will ultimately look in space? Will it have the black appearance as shown in the previously linked photo, or will it be white as portrayed in concept artwork?

LEO = Low Earth Orbit

Man-rated = tested and approved for the purpose of carrying humans. It's easier to approve a rocket for cargo work than carrying crews.