NASA admits shuttle, ISS were mistakes

[Phil]

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.

The Shuttle and ISS were not failures. Not having a replacement ready when the Shuttle was decommissioned was.

Phil M1GWZ




On 12 Jul 2011, at 04:35, Chip Fetrow wrote:

> 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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