[Darksheare]

True enough, but teh last time we built anything out of titanium, Kelly Johnson was in charge of Lockheed Skunkworks....
It is denser, but takes better punishment.
I'm reminded that it was Clinton and NASA who decided that the shuttle replacement could be pushed back a few years.
And Carter who cut the original budget for it so that it ended up being aluminum bodied rather than titanium...

As Nasa says, "Cheaper, Better, Faster.. pick any two."
Disgusting that it takes the death of our astronauts to point out the faults in that idiotic thinking at NASA.

[JohnBovenmyer]

I'm reminded that it was Clinton and NASA who decided that the shuttle replacement could be pushed back a few years.

And it was Algore who was touted as picking the replacement, thus guaranteeing that the wrong one was picked!

[txradioguy]

I just keep thinking of that movie "The Right Stuff" when the Mercury 7 guys caught the pocket protector crowd as NASA doing things on the cheap. The actor who played Gus Grissom say "No bucks.....no Buck Rogers."