Re: LIFTOFF!!!!!

Andy wrote: It is amazing that after 2 years of intensive safety
examination and
procedures, millions spent on meetings and committees, and enormous
public support which led to relatively unlimited funding,   NASA is
still
not capable of shooting up a rocket with a reliable gas gauge and good
enough glue so that a bunch of stuff doesn't fall off the rocket on the
way
up......
        I pray for the safety of the astronauts who are
on a machine put together
by the lowest bidders and governed by managers who failed to succeed as
engineers and went into admininstration...
            Andy (retired engineer, who
understands intimately how the                    
system really works )
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Did you forget held together with gum and baling wire? Until the space
shuttles are perfectly safe (or as near to) without parts falling off,
they should be grounded. I read that the commander of this mission said
the shuttle should be grounded until all the wrongs are worked out. I
just hope they make it back in one piece. Jeanette

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