[McGavin999]

You are right, the Brits did a fabulous job and they'll learn from that mission and the next one will be successful. But it was important to us that this one of ours was a success, because of what NASA has been through, and because of all the nasty anti-Americanism over in europe.

[weegee]

I hadn't considered that the next "space race" would be against the EU-SSR.