Boeing Move to Texas Hurt Shuttle Analysis-Report

Reuters ^ | Thursday July 31, 2:41 pm ET | Deborah Zabarenko

[ALOHA RONNIE]

The 1st Thing CLINTON did for Space was to kill America's Space Station Program in favor of the now Joint Russia-American Program called Space Station 'ALPHA'..!!

America's Space Station was to be called The 'FREEDOM' Space Station.

Yes, BILL CLINTON made sure that...

...there would be no 'FREEDOM' in Space.

[bonesmccoy]

yup... all the guys I know called the changes to space station "RALPHA" for Russian-Alpha.

Also, "ralpha" as in "barf".

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...Thanks, bones, I needed that.

[XBob]

20 - I and my brother (who worked for NASA at the time (in the 70's) when NASA was prohibitied by congress from building the shuttle they wanted, and was forced to make a 'cheaper' shuttle. To get it through congress, they designed it so that it was to be built in 75 different congressional districts (bringing jobs to each of the districts). The whole program became a 'jobs' program.

He and I were there in the 80's when they tried to 'privatize' space at Cape Canaveral (not Kennedy Space Center), and all the experienced people were 'jobs program' people, who had no idea about 'commercial feasibility' and saving money - their main goals were to spend money. And they just couldn't bring themselves to even understand the concept. This was the 'missed' opportunity.

Xlinton just sent the technology and work to his fellow communist buddies in China and Russia. So, the opportunity, which was, is gone, and has been for some time now. We can only hope NASA accidentally discovers gold on Mars or something.

[snopercod]

I think I already related how I saved the taxpayers $250,000 per year by re-flowing a major integrated shuttle test. I tightened it up so that instead of 48 hours long, it could be performed in 32 hours. Hundreds of people had to be on-station for the entire test.

When my management found out, they took the test away from me and put it back like it was before.

That one incident was what made me decide to leave. There were other reasons of course, but that pushed me over the brink.

[anymouse]

Well we new all was lost when "Freedom" died and the Russians became our "partners."

[bonesmccoy]

"Well we new all was lost when "Freedom" died and the Russians became our "partners.""

That is a rather profound statement of fact!

I suppose we can point to the fact that Reagan designed Freedom.

Clinton-Gore designed ralph.

[bonesmccoy]

You're welcome Ronnie... nothing like little Ralpha bits in the morning.