NASA admits shuttle, ISS were mistakes

[John Teller]

That article is also 6 years old and was written under Griffin's 
tenure.  He was trying to move things away from big low-Earth projects 
into interplanetary missions (much as he did when he was running the 
Space Systems Group at Orbital).  Dissing ISS and the Shuttle were just 
part of the campaign.  Dawn was one of his pet projects, and made it 
through at least one outright cancellation.

---JST


On 07/12/2011 02:58 PM, Phil wrote:
> The media are so good at 20:20 hindsight. Why not celebrate its successes, than declare it a failure? I remember an article in 'New Scientist' damning the Apollo missions for the "lack of meaningful science". Of course, the assumption was that technology and engineering development have no intrinsic worth whatsoever.
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> The Shuttle and ISS were not failures. Not having a replacement ready when the Shuttle was decommissioned was.
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> Phil M1GWZ
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> On 12 Jul 2011, at 04:35, Chip Fetrow wrote:
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>> They missed the point that much of the Shuttle's design was done for the military, particularally the Air Force, who dropped out of the program once they were building the first Shuttles.  It would have been much smaller, and capible of going into higher orbits had the Air Force not been involved.
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>> http://m.techrepublic.com/blog/geekend/nasa-admits-shuttle-iss-were-mistakes/93
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>> --chip
>>  From the Kennedy Space Center Press Site
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