Why did they send a schoolteacher on a "test flight"? The shuttle has become an expensive political showboat.
"Why did they send a schoolteacher on a "test flight"? The shuttle has become an expensive political showboat."
This flight is considered a test flight. They all will be now for the most part from a safety stand point.
Yes shuttle did not deliver what was promised in the early seventies. Lets keep beating up NASA shall we for a decision made thirty years ago yes?
Expensive political show boat? uh huh. yeah thats it. Nixon started it, Ford and Carter continued it. Reagan, Bush 41 and Clinton too and now Bush 43.
Seeing a pattern here? Americans want to explore space. WE ARE EXPLORERS. Shuttle will be replaced. She still has a job to finish. And we learn something new every time she flies. WE learn by doing. She is the only girl in town right now.