[ARCADIA]

We are fying a decrepid antique; I hope those astronauts have purchased extra life insurance.

[Normal4me]

You're right. We had two whole years to build a completely new launch vehicle! Reminder: 112 sucessful launches and 2 failures.

[dr_who_2]

Here I am floating in my tin can...

[Last Dakotan]

We are fying a decrepid antique; I hope those astronauts have purchased extra life insurance.

Then again, very little isn't known about the shuttles. I've had cars with 200k plus miles on them that I'd drive anywhere.

The operation of complex systems and engineering reliability are known and strict disciplines that usually function well when applied correctly. Thus the only errors in judgment are when politicians, lawyers or bureaucrats become involved. Let the engineers here be engineers.

[bill1952]

Arcadia, given the syntax and spelling of that statement I think I'll pass on your logic.

The Shuttle is still state of the art aeronautical technology that works in the real world.

Nothing else at this time even comes close.
Space travel is dangerous, and will remain so for the foreseeable future, IE, the next thousand years..

Engineering is not star trek, liberal wishful thinking nonsense.

It is centuries of hard work where progress is only possible by lifetimes of dedicated hard work by geniuses who push the frontiers of human knowledge only by standing on the shoulders of the giants who walked before us.

[benjaminjjones]

We are fying a decrepid antique

LOL!