Re: Space Shuttle
- From: "*JimH*" <me@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 22:08:54 -0400
"Gene Kearns" <Please.email.me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 20:58:16 -0400, "*JimH*" <me@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>You are not addressing the question or the current problem.
>>
>>
>>I was referring to the Space Shuttle, not all previous space flights. If
>>they cannot fix the problem with 2 1/2 years of research and over $1
>>billion
>>in costs it is time to say we need to develop new technology.
>>
>>It is a no brainer. Time to move on with new technology or say goodbye to
>>NASA and leave it to private companies to compete over and develop the new
>>space technology needed to move forward.
>>
>>
>
> I think I missed your point. The shuttle was, at its inception, a
> compromise. It is long past it's designed retirement date.
>
> You are entirely correct that a new technology is now due. No, past
> due.
>
> My point was, though, it is easier to see more apparently germane
> technology in today's context.... as in the past, the payoff will be
> to the next generation... not to us..... and is well worth the $$$$$$.
>
> I don't think privatization is necessarily a good thing. Companies
> rightly serve the stockholders. Certainly, some benefit is obtained by
> the consumer, but the big winner is the stockholder via the
> corporation. NASA has served the nation well, winning the "space
> race," hand down. I don't mind cutting out the middle man if my
> children and grandchildren are served as well as I have been... I feel
> like my parents dollars have been well spent. I'm not ready to declare
> than mine have been squandered. In light of past events, how much
> money would you spend (or not) to prevent another human tragedy?
>
> Putting people into space safely is just not a cheap endeavor, but it
> *IS* highly lucrative, if performed successfully.....
>
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NASA employees do not do the work....contractors do, and under the
supervision of NASA. Where the contractors at fault? Perhaps. Was NASA
management supervising and approving the work at fault? Without a doubt.
The person heading the Shuttle Program should be fired. She approved the
launch of this latest shuttle mission knowing there were unresolved
problems, including those identified from the Challenger shuttle disaster in
2003.
Scuttle the program and start new. One cannot put a price on human life/
.
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