Posted on 10/31/2004 6:57:37 AM PST by Paul Ross
Glad we don't stop all cars from driving on roads and highways for a year or two every time there is a major wreck or death on the highway...... Life is fragile, handle with care and prayer. But you have to go on.....
Fly NASA fly!
The history of manned space flight 1970-2004 makes what happened 1960-1969 all the more amazing.
You wouldn't get me up in that thing.
This is great news. My personal and professional life seemed to be going down the toilet on the day that this tragedy happened. At the time, it gave me so much to think about, how blessed I was and how these heros had given so much. Now, almost two years later, my life is so much better and its wonderful to hear that NASA is going back into the sky. There's a wonderful Christian song which goes, "God and time" that's all we need.
'Cause he'll be worried about a third term?
Maybe not "worried" but concerned about legacy.
Very sad, that Nasa astronauts no longer possess
the courage needed to fly to the Hubble Space Telescope.
Give me a space ship commanded and staffed with Navy & Marine pilots and a couple US Army Special Forces guys. No girls..no foreigners..no doctors..if someone gets sick & dies ...throw them overboard..
We need to summon the courage and tenacity that Christopher Columbus and Ferdniand Magellan showed.
God help us if the Chinese Communists beat us to Mars. That will mark the demise of the United States.
Or the moon......
NASA had better start doing something bold pretty fast in light of Spaceshipone or they will quickly slide into irrelevance more than they already have.
Sorry, but that's just plain wrong. The astronauts all want to go back to the Hubble. It's the chairborne bureaucrats in DC that won't let them.
If cars cost $1,700,000,000.00 each (plus tax, title, and license), they might stop for an accident.
We would stop to figure what went wrong. We wouldn't pretend that astronaut's lives are worth billions. If astronauts don't want risks, they can step aside and there will be hundreds of qualified people to take their place. I want astronauts to say this. That they virtually never do shows me about how much courage they actually have.
I'll be happy to take your seat then. I'd vastly prefer to ride on a private enterprise flight, but would run not walk to Cape Kennedy if a seat on a Shuttle flight were offered to me.
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That's what, a 1.7% accident rate?
With something as complicated as the shuttle, and considering it's pretty much just a huge bomb, which, when working properly, the explosion is controlled and directed out the tail nozzle, I think it's pretty remarkable.
GodSpeed!
It's the shuttle that cost $1,7000,000,000.00; not counting anyone's life. It probably costs more now.
Yup.
It will take a while before the next generation shuttle is built. :-(
SSTO would be ideal.
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