Re: OT: Shuttle Breaks Up During Re-Entry
Actually, the first shuttle flew in 1981 so they're 'only' 22 years old at most. But that's plenty. The hell of it is, the shuttle program is no closer to being replaced now than it was in 1986 when the Challenger was lost. It was supposed to be a stop-gap while the 'space plane' was developed and NASA has never gotten enough funding to develop that replacement. I wonder if they will get funding now, or if this is the death of NASA as well as those astronauts. No one, Republican or Democrat, has been friendly to the space program for decades. Once we finished the Apollo project interest just collapsed.
[ February 01, 2003, 15:29: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]
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