Re: Chicken *** NASA (was Re: Hubble good as dead)

"Homer J. Fong" <homersimpson23@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>So what's happened to NASA to turn them so chicken *** about sending
>astronauts to service Hubble? We went to the moon and back several
>times, sent men who had never walked in space before to walk in space,
>and even recovered from the near-disaster of Apollo 13.

Since the 1960's the American public has shifted towards an attitude
of 'life is sacred and no expense shall be spared in preventing even
the semblance of risk'.

It's not NASA, but the culture and society it exists in. Failure to
acknowledge and understand this essential fact is a supreme act of
idiocy.

D.
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Oct 5th, 2004 JDL
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