Re: Soyuz TMA-11 Comes Home, More or Less...

Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I thought the whole ISS program was a convoluted mess from
the word go that would eat up huge amounts of money while yielding very
little useful data, and was mainly a bone thrown to "international
cooperation" and a public works program for the aerospace manufacturers
of all the countries involved in it after the end of the Cold War.

Credulous idealist. *I* started nine years earlier, thinking Space
Station Freedom was mainly a PR counterweight to SDI... and a bone
thrown to those who'd hypnotized themselves into believing that STS
had yielded CATS, and it was time for the next step on the von Braun
checklist.

Monte Davis
http://montedavis.livejournal.com/
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