On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 00:33:20 +1100, "Jake Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I think going back to ablatives is the wrong way for NASA to go >ablatives would be a good option for a commercial venture but NASA is meant >to be progressing That would be absolutely right if Columbia was being used as an X-plane, to explore the state of the art WRT spaceflight technology. Fly it like X-1, X-2, X-15, etc. No payload except instrumentation, minimum crew, if we lose the vehicle we name a street after them and move on. But Columbia was being used as a recoverable space station. It was treated as an operational vehicle, a space truck. You don't test new gadgets on trucks; you test them on race cars. -R _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
