Shuttle And Station Were Mistakes: Griffin

Spacedaily, Agence France-Presse (AFP) ^ | Sep 28, 2005 | Michael Griffin

[tricky_k_1972]

Whoa, well it's what most of us believed fo a long time.

[tricky_k_1972]

Space Ping! If you want on or off this list please Freepmail me. My Home Page

[BartMan1]

Whoa ! 2018 ?? Wouldn't want to rush into anything there, chief....

[BartMan1]

2018 ???

[BartMan1]

2018 ???

[mainepatsfan]

Can you imagine what the politics of picking who the first one to walk on the moon of that mission will be?

[RightWhale]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1492912/posts

[tricky_k_1972]

Um, I'm seeing triple.

[poindexters brother]

John Glenn

:-)

[tricky_k_1972]

Crap, sorry, I checked and came up with nothing.

[RightWhale]

The search function is hit or miss a lot of the time.

[Shermy]

But path to where?

After Apollo we should have kept going to the moon? Why?

This fellow's comments will be a downer for those who worked in and take pride in the programs for the past two decades.

[va4me]

Didn't we figure out how to get to the moon 35 years ago or so?

Maybe by 2050 we can launch a satellite that orbits the earth and goes "ping". :-)

[va4me]

This fellow's comments will be a downer for those who worked in and take pride in the programs for the past two decades.

I was at Kennedy Space Center on a tour a few weeks ago, according to the bus drive, 6,500 people currently work on the shuttle program.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

A day late and a shuttle or two short, I'd say.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

A day late and a shuttle or two short, I'd say.

[tricky_k_1972]

Please remove. duplicat posting, thank you.

[KarlInOhio]

John Glenn

Only if he gets back in the Senate and obstructs president hillary's impeachment trial. :-)

[KarlInOhio]

John Glenn

Only if he gets back in the Senate and obstructs president hillary's impeachment trial. :-)

[Names Ash Housewares]

Much was learned from shuttle, still will be learned as we complete the space station. Much of that technology and know how will end up in the new exploration rockets and vehicles.
It was a mistake but no one knew it at the time. We should never have abandoned the Saturn V's. But cheap access to space was the hope. A "Space Truck" that would fly many missions a year was what was expected. It just didnt happen. But we must not abandon the space station as we abandoned Apollo and Skylab. Permanant human presence in space teaches us many lessons that will be very useful in missions to come that reach beyond orbit. Shuttle is in her last phase. The new vehicles will rise and take us where no one has gone before once again. New places on the moon we could never dream of visiting before. And we will learn how to go beyond the lunar surface in time.