Re: Shuttle launch delayed until July

Pat Flannery wrote:

No, I'm sure they figured that one out decades ago...but it is symptomatic of what's wrong here... they _should_ be able to count on what the PAO says, because it should be the straightforward unvarnished truth about what is going on, not propaganda like the Soviet space program used to engage in.
The fact that it isn't is what happens when funding concerns and swollen agency bureaucracy replaces engineering and exploration.

hey Pat, NASA's been doing that since the beginning. I still vividly remember the shock I got when I found out about the little inflight mutiny thing on A7. My only exposure to the mission up until college was the Time Life "To The Moon" record set, where they mentioned the head cold as sort of a minor glitch, and they had a picture of Shorty Powers giving teh high sign in Mission Control with a "101% Perfect" caption underneath.

The other thing that still revulses me about NASA's public relations machine is how any tiny little milestone for any tiny little mission has to have some sort of soundbiteable tagline attached to it. If ISS gets a new toilet seat, its first operational deployment is hailed by CAPCOM as "one small crap for man, one giant dump for mankind".

Enough already, nobody's listening anymore anyway. Fly the fucking mission and come back home again, don't try to impress us over nothing fer crissakes!


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Terrell Miller
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