[bonesmccoy]

Unless the nation is willing to bring the old Rockwell International tooling out of storage (and rebuild some of the facilities involved), there will be no way of replacing the parts destroyed two days ago.

The facilities which constructed the orbiter have been closed for several years (closed by BILL CLINTON'S lack of commitment to aerospace projects).

The suppliers of parts were downsized when the US military was defunded by BILL CLINTON.

I'd like to thank BILL CLINTON for royally screwing up our national interests. Not only did the S.O.B. destroy our healthcare system, but the Clintons gutted the military/aerospace community's manufacturing facilities and forced our national launch interests to now rely on the Russians for access to the multi-billion dollar space station that WE PAID FOR; and removed/eliminated the entire manufacturing base for manned space vehicles.

If you find any liberals who claim that the GOP gutted spaceflight, set them straight!

[rintense]

Oy. Why am I not surprised this goes back to Clinton. No wonder he was able to balance the budget.