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  • French astronaut says Columbia should no longer have been used (Gad!)

    02/01/2003 3:16:20 PM PST · by sonofatpatcher2 · 81 replies · 495+ views
    SpaceDaily.Com ^ | 1-2-2003 | Agence France-Presse
    French astronaut says Columbia should no longer have been used PARIS (AFP) Feb 01, 2003 A French astronaut who took part in an earlier US shuttle mission and has criticised current space programmes said Saturday the shuttle Columbia which disintegrated should have been out of use long ago. Patrick Baudry said on French television he was "up in arms" over the disaster. "I think the shuttle should have been taken out of use long ago," Baudry said: "It's a magnificent machine that the Americans developed. But extremely dangerous." The Frenchman charged that the Columbia was limited in its capacity, and...