Re: Delays threaten station timetable

"Jorge R. Frank" <jrfrank@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Maurice Barnhill <mvb@xxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Most likely, the decision will be moot by the time the next president
takes office. NASA is already moving to terminate shuttle supply
contracts once they've provided enough parts to last through the planned
manifest.

I think the discussion is that the current manifest cant' be flown by 2010,
hence the extension. Not adding to the manifest.

In which case those terminations shouldn't be a problem.


The next administration will find itself in much the same
situation with respect to the space shuttle that the Nixon administration
found itself in with respect to Apollo/Saturn: a rapidly drying supply
pipeline and no easy/cheap way to reopen it. Stretching the current
manifest past 2010 will still be possible but adding new flights to the
manifest won't be.

Exactly. :-)

And I think the termination at this time is the same mistake that the A/S
one. Oh well.



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