begin Keith Antoine's quote: | From what we are seing on the news here they seem to be admitting | to somewhat lax proceedures. Cost cutting having an effect?
to some extent, but that goes back to the early 1970s. from day one, the shuttle program has been both pointless and inefficient (which hasn't prevented corruption; for instance, rockwell used shuttle money to develop the landing gear for the b-1 bomber, which it kind of wedged onto the shuttle, causing some problems early on). the body of knowledge of space and things that happen there, as well as the number of satellites in orbit, would not have been reduced one iota if the shuttle had never existed; indeed, the argument can be made that with the same money put into expendibles we would have more space science and more satellites. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
