Re: Griffin Calls STS, ISS "Mistakes"

Jim Davis <jimdavis2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>But the bare statement... strongly suggests (to me at least) that he making a more
>absolute statement; that he was referring to limitations of knowledge
>and/or state of the art.

Then maybe we should agree to disagree here, for the sake of Davis
family harmony :-). As I've said before, I believe that rather than
any one of the usual suspects (budget, payload/bay size, crossrange,
TPS, etc) the central problem was an attempt to do too much in one
step... or viewed from another angle, the choice to "declare victory"
after Shuttle 1.0 and proceed as if it had yielded what we'd been
aiming for in 1971.

So to me, Griffin's "extremely aggressive" is right on target. To
those who say that his comments were somehow insulting to those
working on STS, I respond: if you've spent 25 years pretending your
apprentice effort is a masterpiece, it's bound to hurt when someone
describes it candidly.
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