Re: Wernher von Braun was against Shuttle, but...



Jorge R. Frank wrote:


You've already seen how I responded to it, OM. Pat tried to backpedal from his original (and patently false) statement - "HST is too heavy to be returned by the shuttle" - because Henry flat out shot him down, stating that the problem - if there was one - was HST structural integrity, and not any problem with the shuttle. Pat changed his wording subtly to try to make it look like that was his position all along. If he hadn't softened his post (and indirectly acknowledged his evasion) with a smiley, he'd be at the bottom of my killfile hell by now.



I didn't much care for how you implied that I'd stated that Shuttle got direct military funding based on anything I'd posted either.
I quoted my original post, and you apparently read more into it than I'd written.
I know we don't see eye-to-eye, but that was getting fairly near the concept of "dirty pool".

Pat

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