On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:11:35 -0700, lal_truckee
wrote:

GeoffGJONES wrote:

As a UK resident, I can only admire the US space program. They may have dropped
the ball this time, but let us hope that nothing mad happens, such as the
shuttle program itself being dropped. No one was more sorry over the loss than
I, but it should continue. There I go again, spending someone else's money .

If they need fodder for any shuttle tests, I will be there in 10 seconds flat!

Congress and NASA need to ask Magellan about acceptable losses when
exploring new frontiers...

Make a cheaper launch system, shoot up thousands instead of sevens, lose
hundreds, and let's get into space permanently. Our ancesters weren't
such wimps or most of the posters to this forum wouldn't be posting from
where they are now; why are we so risk adverse?

I volunteer.

There is nothing wrong with the Shuttle, only the people who run it.
-Rich