Re: NASA Starts Planning to Retire Space Shuttle

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 12:50:30 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Greg Kuperberg) made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

>In article <Xns962EE740A8975jrfrank@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>Jorge R. Frank <jrfrank@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>Besides, handing Russia a monopoly on human spaceflight would be just plain
>>stupid.
>
>Other than the space station mess, what would be the problem with it?

Nothing, obviously, if you don't care about manned spaceflight. Or
going into space yourself. Or developing offworld resources. Or
expanding frontiers.
.

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