Come and take a ride on the Space Shuttle, you have a 1 in 20 chance of not coming back. It's time to scrap this dinosaur program which has no real purpose except a jobs program for NASA. Its time to go to Mars. If we would have not wasted time and money on this and the international space station we could have already been there. Flame away!
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2 posted on
07/08/2003 7:31:46 AM PDT by
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To: thepainster
why should the government be the one to go to mars? why can't private industry do it cheaper, faster and better?
3 posted on
07/08/2003 7:34:08 AM PDT by
camle
(no fool like a damned fool)
To: thepainster
Come and take a ride on the Space Shuttle, you have a 1 in 20 chance of not coming back.
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I'd do it in a second if given the chance!
To: thepainster
What flame? I'm with you all the way. In fact, I'll go further. We should never have gone to the moon in the 1960's. We should have spent that time an money to build spacefaring _infrastructure_. Inexpensive, reliable lift to LEO. A space station whose purpose is to assemble and launch space-only craft. A moon landing whose purpose is to found a moon base. Lunar energy, metals, and oxygen extraction from native materials. A moon-based super telescope. Etc. Instead we played tag with the moon...we built just enough single-purpose hardware to touch the moon and run back home. Now we need to start all over again...40 years later! Ugh!
To: thepainster
A NASA buddy told me about this the day after the disaster. Apparently, he didn't need this test to know it. Now y'all are going to love this....
What he said was that the foam on the fuel tank used to be treated with this aerosol stuff. There were no problems then. Environmental groups objected though, said the stuff they were treating the foam with was damaging the ozone layer. So they quit using it and used a more "earth friendly" substitute. Problems began. The foam started "popcorning" and pieces of it would break off from time to time. NASA engineers had been fretting over it for some time, but apparently nothing could or would be done. And this is the end result.
10 posted on
07/08/2003 7:55:37 AM PDT by
squidly
To: RadioAstronomer
ping
To: thepainster
My odds of getting killed while holding an anti-clinton sign at a Hillary love fest are about one in five. I think I'd take the shuttle any day.
That is unless they sell advertizing on the exterior and someone buys an anti-clinton slogan for space launch. I'll walk thank you.....
30 posted on
07/08/2003 8:44:42 AM PDT by
blackdog
(Who weeps for the tuna?)
To: thepainster
Smoking gun or Smoking Man?
To: thepainster
The bureaucrats at NASA smoke guns? Must be some good stuff they are bonging through shotguns.
At least now I understand the p!ss poor performance they've demonstrated over the past 30 years.
To: thepainster
re: It's time to scrap this dinosaur program which has no real purpose except a jobs program for NASA)))
It's also a *rides* program for wannabe passengers--and vicarious passengers. The future is in robotics, at least for our lifetime. Check out the rover for some real excitement--
84 posted on
07/09/2003 7:23:56 AM PDT by
Mamzelle
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