From: J Travis (dagobert@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sat Feb 01 2003 - 16:57:24 PST
All the more reason to push on with getting the space plane platform up
and running. But watch; they'll probably take the money and try to
convert the Enterprise into a functional shuttle (the Enterprise, you'll
recall, was the first shuttle built. It had no engines, and was used as
a full-size glider to prove the reentry theory. It currently sits in
the museum in Huntsville, AL). But I guess Chris is right about it
being a moot point now, anyway- at least for the now 14 astronauts lost
in this program. But I still say its time to move on towards the
future. IF we can afford to give $40 billion in aide to Africa to
people who would gladly kill every American they could get their hands
on (remember Somalia?), why can't we put the money needed into
revitalizing the space program, both by NASA and by private industry,
and getting nearer to Mars?
Ken MacLean wrote:
>To withstand the
>forces at work here, an escape capsule or capsules would have to be very
>heavy. So heavy that the existing shuttle could not accomodate them, never
>mind get off the ground.
>Ken
>
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