Re: USA Today: NASA Administrator says space shuttle was a mistake
- From: Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 20:24:29 -0500
Bill wrote:
Others may disagree but this story tells me that they finally have someone running NASA who knows what he's doing.
Griffin: "It is now commonly accepted that was not the right path. We
are now trying to change the path while doing as little damage as we
can."
I still remember a year or two back when the former head of the Shuttle program was getting interviewed by the CAIB (?), and told them that all those cost estimates of pound-to-orbit that NASA floated around at the beginning of the program were entirely fabricated crap, and NASA knew it at the time.
Safety aside, if we'd known exactly what its flight economics were going to be back then, it's very doubtful that it would ever have been built.
How Griffin's statement plays into the what's going on with the Shuttle recently is interesting to consider. I think we may be seeing a trial balloon here for permanently grounding the Shuttle, and ditching further involvement in the ISS (which in my opinion was a dumb idea to have started building in the first place, particularly the international aspect, and doubly dumb for having the international aspect involve the Russians.).
Given Katrina's damage to the Michoud ET manufacturing facility and the continuing foam shedding problems, I think that now is seen by the powers that be as a good time to bite the political bullet and ground the thing.
Pat .
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