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Re: NASA has impressed me!
Posted by jc [Email] (more from jc) on Tue, 6 Jan 2004 08:59:10
In Reply to: NASA has impressed me!, davenew, Mon, 5 Jan 2004 16:29:49
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Yes, it's amazing what can happen when everything (apparently) goes right.
As far as the shuttle disaster, what were their choices once it was in orbit? There was no available rescue vehicle, not enough fuel to get it to the ISS, and no means for the occupants to repair any tile damage. They either had to attempt reentry or let them die in space as oxygen was depleted.
I'm not a very harsh critic of NASA because, if you could quantitatively measure the complexity of their task and contrast that with their excellent percentage of successful missions, you'd see they don't deserve a lot of criticism except where obvious human failures were made. In this case the failure seems to be ignoring a known issue with large pieces of frozen foam flying off at roughly 500MPH during liftoff, and not enough management involvement to see there was a problem going unheeded. The problem with NASA's failures is that they are usually not small - usually a failure in space is catastrophic.
I'd rather my tax money be spent on exploring space than fighting optional wars for petroleum security.
Just my $0.02, and I agree, the Mars thing is KICK-ASS! We were searching high and low in our office for some 3D glasses yesterday!
John
Atlanta
'01 Viggen
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Posts in this Thread:
- NASA has impressed me!, davenew, Mon, 5 Jan 2004 16:29:49
- Great job NASA... unlike ESA..., Coolknight, Wed, 7 Jan 2004 00:48:04
- Re: NASA has impressed me!, jc, Tue, 6 Jan 2004 08:59:10 <-- Viewing This Message
- Agreed, I'm impressed too... Congrats to NASA, Scott Paterson , Mon, 5 Jan 2004 18:36:40
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