[ale] OT: Space Shuttle Columbia

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net (tfreeman at intel.digichem.net)]

On 4 Feb 2003, James P. Kinney III wrote:

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> 
> What is needed is another way to get to space, not a fix to the problems
> of the shuttle. NASA knows they are old and don't suit the need. But we
> have lacked the political will to take on the daunting task of designing
> and building something better. I have watched with dismay now as two
> separate BIG projects have been scrapped in order to better perfect ways
> of killing other humans has taken precedence, the new space plan, and
> the SSC (Superconducting Super Collider in Texas (now a mushroom farm)).
> 

I'm just supposing here, but maybe if we hadn't opted for High 
Frontiers/Star Wars/Space Defense Initiative over the past 20 years the 
country might have funded a second generation attempt at a shuttle? 

Naw. 

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