Re: NASA Starts Planning to Retire Space Shuttle

On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 08:28:25 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Paul F.
Dietz" <dietz@xxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

>Rand Simberg 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.
>
>Even if you do care, what's the problem? What is this fetish with
>maintaining useless current capabilities at the expense of real
>development?

I've no such fetish. That's a different question than the one that
Gregg asked.
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