Re: Here We Go Again!

simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx (Rand Simberg) wrote:

Yes. It was the National Space Transportation System, and supposed to
satisfy all launch requirements, both civil and military, so NASA had
to consider DoD requirements when it designed it. (This programmatic
approach, more than the design itself, was the most disastrous thing
about the Shuttle, and NASA doesn't seem to have learned any lessons
from it, because they did the same thing with VentureStar).

Who designated it the 'National' system? NASA? Was it an inescapable
political requirement in an era that saw very little support for NASA
in the first place?

Remember that nobody makes decisions in a vacuum or with the clarity
of 20/20 hindsight.

D.
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