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



Derek Lyons wrote:
Which, in my book, makes the person who thinks that's a condemnation
of the Shuttle... an idiot. Because that was the goal of the Shuttle
from Day One, to work with a space station.

No, no, no... Shuttle was designed to lower the per-pound cost of getting things and people into LEO for NASA, commercial interests, and the DOD.
That's why all the other existing launch systems were to be discarded in favor of the Shuttle, as it could launch things cheaper than they could, so they were just a waste of time and money.
The Shuttle was the only obvious solution if we wanted to decrease spending on spaceflight.
Oh, I remember those days.
That worked like a charm, didn't it? :-D

Pat
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