From: J Travis (dagobert@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sat Feb 01 2003 - 10:23:14 PST
> Looks like that decision to cut costs by eliminating the crew escape
> module to save on the budget might not have been such a great idea
> after all, huh? Thanks, Mr. Clinton. I'm sure all those public school
> library copies of "Billy has Two Daddies" bought with the "savings" on
> the NASA budget are a real comfort to the families of the astronauts...
>
> What we REALLY need is to go ahead and fund the development of the
> space plane, to replace the Orbiter (space shuttle) system that SHOULD
> have been done in the late eighties. But between cutting the NASA
> budget to fund politically motivated social agendas and not being
> willing to overhaul the industry built around continuing the support
> of this obsolete technology, we now find ourselves right back where we
> were in 1986 with Challenger. My sympathies to the families of those
> lost today.
Jay Travis
Ryan Gill wrote:
> At 9:48 AM -0500 2/1/03, Alan R Wise wrote:
>
>> Terrible day, February 1, 2003.
>
>
> Damn it.
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