Posted on 01/15/2010 2:19:04 AM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Within a year—give or take a few months—the shuttles will no longer be roaring through Florida skies. The program will shut down, the orbiters will go to museums, and pundits and bloggers will jump all over each other to pontificate on the meaning of the shuttle program. Most will declare it a mistake, some will call it a disaster. Eventually the historians will get to it, holding symposia and writing books about the program. Some of them will look at the shuttle’s early origins, when it was slated to be all things to all people: cheap, reliable, responsive. They will look at the early 1970s policy decision to place all American satellites—civilian, commercial, and military—aboard a single rocket. And inevitably they will stumble into what is perhaps the last gaping hole in our knowledge of the shuttle’s origins: the issues surrounding the military and intelligence communities’ agreement to transfer all of their vital satellites to the shuttle. There is not much information on this subject at all, so the recent declassification of several documents that discuss it is a notable development.
What makes these documents most notable is that they are apparently the first declassified US documents referring to NRO policy on using the Space Shuttle. The documents are contained in the most recently published version of a State Department series known as Foreign Relations of the United States (or FRUS for short). FRUS is not the most voluminous source of declassified documents on historical US government activities, and space is rarely discussed in the FRUS volumes. However, FRUS frequently contains very high-level policy documents.
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My despise meter for this man continues to grow.
And to be honest, I’m beginning to tire of Sarah’s defense of him.
I love Sarah but this man is one of the biggest problems of the Country and of the GOP. There is NO excuse of defending him time after time.
Who is “this” man? In the article they refer to multiple people.
Thanks!
You are correct. What is he talking about and directing his comment to whom.
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