--- Ian Woollard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.spacedaily.com/news/shuttle-03p1.html > > > This could conceivably destroy the Shuttle program,
Unfortunately, as you said, it's normal for stuff like this to be forgotten. Want to bet that those presently in charge of the Shuttle program will claim ignorance or forgetfulness when asked why they leave factors like this out of the consideration of whether the Shuttle program should proceed? (Of course, there's a better reason for ignoring it: the Shuttle program's present publically stated goals are different than its originals. Thus, the fact that it lied in the first place is kind of irrelevant now.) > and NASA is going to > lose a tonne of credibility; and it wasn't exactly > in credit to start > with. I think this is worse than the report; unless > I've missed > something in the report. Yow. The report was being charitable to NASA. This may have been out of fear of losing America's manned space program entirely and permanently (or at least for the rest of their lives, same diff to them) - regardless of all future potential public mood swings and technology improvements - if they were blunt, but that is only speculation. _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
