Re: Death Sentence for the Hubble?

From: Jeff Findley (jeff.findley_at_ugs.nojunk.com)
Date: 03/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:31:15 -0500

"JATO @jatobservatory.org>" <jato<No-Canned-Ham> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:49:02 +0000 (UTC), echomko_at_@polaris.umuc.edu
> (Eric Chomko) wrote:
> >Okay, so the shuttle is the "Edsel" of spacecraft. Who, IYO, is going to
> >make the "Volkswagen"?
>
> Nobody. As long as it is government funded and for government (i.e. non
> commercial) use it will remain an over priced beast. Unless the
> replacement is cost effective it will never be embraced by commercial
> business'.

Exactly. Not only is it time for NASA to retire the shuttle, it's time to
make sure they don't get to design the next generation launch vehicle. Most
importantly, this means saying NO to shuttle derived vehicles. Their
development costs may be lower than clean *** designs, but their operating
costs can never be low due to the use of the expensive shuttle
infrastructure.

I'd like nothing more than to see the VAB and the shuttle pads turned into a
museum. Where better to display a shuttle stack than on a crawler in the
VAB? You could turn the desserted office space in the VAB into restaraunts
and gift shops.

Jeff 

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