Re: Griffin Wants Inline SDLV and 5 Segment SRB/CEV

On Sun, 03 Jul 2005 14:56:42 GMT, in a place far, far away, Scott
Lowther <scottlowther@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

>Rand Simberg wrote:
>
>>I never fail to be amazed at all of this misplaced nostalgia for
>>Apollo.
>>
>>
>
>Why? Nostalgia over Apollo makes a boatload of sense. It was the single
>most impressive event in human history, with the possible exception of
>the Trinity test. That it was strangled at birth, or used the wrong
>architecture, or was based on a shaky premise or whatever are minor
>points compared to the achievement.

It was unaffordable, unsustainable, and resulted in decades of
relative stagnation--even retrograde activity--in space, relative to
what could have been accomplished had a different path been chosen.
And it looks like Dr. Griffin wants to repeat the same mistake.
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