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Suggestion for New Shuttle Name
WLS-AM ^
| 02/03/03
| caller on WLS-AM
Posted on 02/03/2003 5:52:40 AM PST by aruanan
A caller to the Don Wade and Roma show suggested:
1. that spending for NASA be increased,
2. that a replacement shuttle be built, and
3. that it's name be Courageous.
He asked Don and Roma if they could help get the ball rolling. I thought that if any place could get it rolling, it would be FreeRepublic.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: shuttle
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Comment #61 Removed by Moderator
To: Redcloak
The Space Shuttle Enterprise (OV-101) already exists:
It's parked at Dulles Airport as part of an exhibit being constructed by the Smithsonian Institution.
To: aruanan
"Infinite Crusade"
To: BushCountry
Things we now take for granted, like the common home smoke detector and cordless tools have grown out of technology derived from the space program. Yes, but not primarily from the wasteful Shuttle program. This is, like "silverlizzard" said, a politically correct PR program and not real achievement as with the Mercury 7. Let's save the money from the doofy Shuttle trips ($600m per, i believe) and just built the inevitable "Moonbase Alpha" already. We can mine there all we want too, without any pesky wildlife to excite environmentalists to block it. And let's go to Mars already, enough of stupid orbits. Privatize contractors to fix hubble and other satellites. MARS! We can put all the Muslims there.
To: abner
Thats The Winner!!!!!!
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posted on
02/03/2003 6:47:16 PM PST
by
cmsgop
( Arby's says no more Horsey Sauce for Scott Ritter !!!!)
To: vannrox
I hope they can succeed in getting an OSP flying, but has NASA learned from the mistakes of the X-33? Will they fall into the same pattern again when attempting to build a next-gen shuttle?
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posted on
02/03/2003 6:48:11 PM PST
by
Brett66
To: SFConservative
Thats Funny, I had no idea.
When I was a Kid living in McLean,VA I went to Dullas with my parents to see it on display around '81 or '82
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posted on
02/03/2003 6:49:32 PM PST
by
cmsgop
( Arby's says no more Horsey Sauce for Scott Ritter !!!!)
To: cmsgop
For all you Heinlein fans:
Roger Young?
Mannerheim?
Be Seeing You,
Chris
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posted on
02/03/2003 6:51:22 PM PST
by
section9
(The girl in the picture is Major Motoko Kusanagi from "Ghost In the Shell". Any questions?)
To: vannrox
The way the National Aerospace Plane just disappeared, I wonder if the military didn't snap it up. I wouldn't blame them. An intercontinental bomber that can go around the world, bomb something, and be home in time for dinner, flying higher and faster than anything except for our own spacecraft.
They call it the "Death Star" he he he
To: montag813
THIS is the way to go! Retire the shuttle with honor, and build something better and cheaper that produces usable resources!
To: aruanan
Gen. Lee
To: SFConservative
That
Enterprise was just a glider. We need an honest-to-goodness space vehicle named
Enterprise!
(Something with a warp drive would be nice, but I'd settle for an orbiter.)
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posted on
02/04/2003 12:32:12 AM PST
by
Redcloak
(Join the Coalition to Prevent Unnecessarily Verbose and Nonsensical Tag Lines, eh)
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