Re: Space Shuttle criticizing will start once it has been retired

"Quadibloc" <jsavard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Jan 1, 9:50 am, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
<mooregr_deletet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Now now, let's look at the facts....

Number of fatal shuttle flights... hmm.. 2
Number of fatal capsule flights... hmm.. 2

Huh? Every one of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronauts made it
back to the ground alive.

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Umm, and the Russians capsules don't count?
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If your point is that the Space Shuttle was an example of NASA falling
to the abysmal level of technological backwardness of the country that
brought us the Chernobyl disaster, I might agree with you.

Otherwise, if you're implying that Russian space launches *count*,
that fatalities in the Russian space program have meaningfulness and
relevance to assessing the _inherent_ risks of space capsule travel,
even when done by Americans *when they're doing it right, with the old
Apollo spirit*, as should be obvious if you've read this far, I
disagree.
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You may disagree, but you haven't made any useful argument.
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John Savard



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