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


"Rand Simberg" <simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 16:16:48 -0400, in a place far, far away, "Murray
> Anderson" <murraya@xxxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow
> in such a way as to indicate that:
>
> >> >So a similar effort with with a somewhat greater payoff looks
> >> >sustainable.
> >>
> >> For a while, until we realize that it's actually almost as pointless
> >> as Shuttle and ISS. Those have been fueled largely by pork, but also
> >> by overselling on the part of NASA, a game that can no longer be
> >> played with them. Now they've shifted to a new false promise, and it
> >> will come to the same end as them, and Apollo.
> >>
> >> There was a reason we built Shuttle (in addition to the need to give
> >> NASA something to do after Apollo). It was to make it more affordable
> >> to get into space, though it failed at that goal. NASA will only be
> >> able to sustain its current path and budgets as long as people don't
> >> come to realize that there are better ways to do things, something
> >> that the private sector will be demonstrating long before they
> >> actually return NASA astronauts to the moon.
> >
> >The original reasons for Shuttle are lost in the mists of time.
>
> Not really. It's all pretty well documented.

I think I'd challenge that. Do the documents tell the truth, for example
about why solids were chosen?
In a practical sense though, it makes no difference why they did things the
way they did 30 years, except if the the facts tell why they failed to
achieve their objective.

Murray Anderson


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