Re: Bush says about the shuttle....and that the White House would not be all that upset if it never flew again.
- From: John Doe <jdoe@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:34:28 -0400
I am not impressed with this Griffin guy.
He steps into the job and starts to make all sorts of fairly dramatic
statements about the shutle being a failure, and now discusses "openly"
plans to donwsize shuttle operations to a point where it is useless abd
bloody expensive to launch 2 people to the station per year instead of
paying the russians $40 million to do the same.
If NASA is not able to complete the job of building the station, if it
is unwilling to fly the shuttle 19 more flights, then why should anyone
trust NASA to be able to complete that mythical CEV ?
The shuttle may not be the cheapest way to space. It may have fragiles
areas, but NASA should prove its capability to tackle those problems. If
it simply abandons projects at the first sign of trouble, NASA will
never go anywhere.
Sounds to me like the guy is not competant and prefers to shut down NASA
instead of taking on the challenges of making NASA work.
There is already a HUGE investment made for all the hardware waiting to
be launched to the station. Keeping all the equipment to rot in a
wharehouse would be squandering nillions of dollars in taxpayer money.
.
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