Re: NASA Rushing To Mars As Per Bush's Policy

From: Sport Pilot (hppilot001_at_cs.com)
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: 25 Feb 2005 09:04:06 -0800

Rand Simberg wrote:
> On 25 Feb 2005 08:26:58 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Sport
Pilot"
> <hppilot001@cs.com> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way
> as to indicate that:
>
> >Ohh, I know that the ATLAS and most of the others were developed for
> >the military, but the first ones that actually worked were made by
> >NASA.
>
> That's utter nonsense. The Thor boosters worked quite well for the
> Air Force, as did the Atlas series. NASA commissioned the Delta as a
> derivative because it had unique launch needs at the time
> (particularly in anticipation of man rating), but not because the
> military was incapable of developing reliable vehicles.

Not utter nonsence. The military could not get those missles to go up
consistantly without blowing up. I think the Redstone was the first
missle that was reliable. NASA helped the military to fix their
programs. From then own the bosters were mostly military for a while,
mostly because NASA was busy with the Saturn series.

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