Re: How journalists write 'balanced' shuttle articles -- like watching sausages and laws being made?


Rand Simberg Wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:53:39 GMT, in a place far, far away, Cardman
> do-not@xxxxxxxxxxx made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
> way as to indicate that:
> -
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:49:07 GMT, simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx (Rand
> Simberg) wrote:
> -
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:16:21 GMT, in a place far, far away, Cardman
> do-not@xxxxxxxxxxx made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
> way as to indicate that:-
> Well, their space station plan was their one main goal all along, but
> it did used to carry a lot of satellites until their space station
> plan got the support and funding.-
>
> Shuttle had many goals, of which building space station(s) was just
> one.-
>
> That one being the main goal.
>
> I mean what else is there to do in LEO, except to put things like
> space stations there?-
>
> Stage for escape missions. Or trips to GEO.
> -
> That was certainly their shuttle intention, when
> they got congress to pay for it.-
>
> And delivery of military satellites. And commercial satellites. And
> everything that the nation planned to put into space. There was in
> fact no space station program until three years after Shuttle flew.
> ---
> More correctly NASA has an obligation to launch all that foreign built
> hardware and to connect it to the ISS. As all these other countries
> would not be happy spending all this money building components that
> NASA now feels like not launching.-
>
> So? It wouldn't be the first time they got screwed after entering
> into an agreement with NASA.-
>
> In such a situation NASA then could not depend on international
> agreements in order to convince congress to pay for their next
> expensive international cooperative project under the idea of the US
> simply putting in their agreed share.-
>
> Good.
> ---
> I highly doubt that NASA has much room to negotiate, which is why
> these sections have a high priority on their list.-
>
> They have all the room in the world. What will the partners do--not
> engage in any more projects of "international cooperation"? What a
> tragedy *that* would be...-
>
> You may notice that the EU, Russia, and China, are working rather
> closely together these days. To just imagine the EU technical
> knowledge and funding, combined with the Russian technical knowledge
> and direct experience, and then combined with the Chinese raw manpower
> and desire, is an entire combined power that would put NASA along way
> down this food chain.-
>
> So? NASA doesn't represent the future of America's space activities.
> -
> NASA has only been doing well in past years due to Russia lacking the
> funding, the EU lacking a joint space programme, and the Chinese not
> making space at all.
>
> Things have obviously changed.-
>
> Not enough to matter.
> --
> No, we could build a facility in L1 that would be much more useful for
> that.-
>
> And that idea seems even more expensive than simply completing the
> ISS.-
>
> No, it could actually be done much cheaper, if that's the goal.
> Recall that ISS is expensive because a) it used the Shuttle and b) it
> was primarily a jobs program, secondarily a foreign aid program and
> the goal of actually building a useful space station was way down the
> list.

hi
???"""a foreign aid program"""???
I do not understand.
Rémy


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Rémy MERCIER
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