Re: SpaceShipOne News Coverage just a little rough on the edges

From: Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal_at_org.trash)
Date: 10/26/04 

Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:40:51 GMT

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:13:24 -0500, in a place far, far away, Pat
Flannery <flanner@daktel.com> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

>They are presently trying to talk themselves into ditching some of the
>CAIB's recommendations- on the grounds that to implement them would be
>expensive and time-consuming.....

They will be. Many of them are unrealistic.

NASA either has to decide to fly the Shuttle, with whoever wants to
fly it (astronauts are free to leave any time--they knew the job was
dangerous when they took it), or retire it, but they should stop
pissing away billions in a futile attempt to make it "safe."

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