For Lack Of A Nail

Fox News ^ | June 27, 2002 | Rand Simberg

[NonZeroSum]

Our manned space infrastructure is extremely fragile

[NonZeroSum]

Just a reminder of the continuing folly of our space policy.

[donh]

In the 60s, we had rocketry on the shelf to establish a base on the moon. 40 years later, what have we got?

It's enough to give credence to the Hoagland's tin hat theories about deputies of the reptilian aliens running NASA, seeing to it that any attempts to get into space are sucked into a black hole.

[DoughtyOne]

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[anymouse]

ping for later reading.

[NonZeroSum]

Ping...

[BlueLancer]

"There is an old tale, about "for lack of a nail...a kingdom was lost.""

I know it's nitpicky, but I believe the quote is "For want of a nail ..."

For want of a nail, the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe, the horse was lost.
For want of a horse, the rider was lost.
For want of a rider, the battle was lost.
For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

[DainBramage]

Duh, as if.....

[Brett66]

The government is clueless, but the nascent space tourism industry is going to fulfill all of the promises made at the dawn of the space age.

[RightWhale]

And then there is the Soyuz from the other guys. It just made its 1360th or something flight and the last 75 have been successful, 11 of them manned. We have one man-rated vehicle, or 3-4 of them, all the Space Shuttle Mark I, Version 1.01 design, Russia has as many vehicles as their factory can bolt together, each one the latest improvement. Now I don't really know what the most efficient rocket motor on earth is, but the Atlas people say pound for pound it is the Russian design they use on the new Atlas series rocket, and that is a sweet bird.