h (Rand Simberg) writes:

It's kind of disingenuous to redefine the Shuttle as "an experimental
vehicle" after the fact, when it was declared "operational" almost
twenty years ago (I remember, because I was there when President
Reagan did it).

If the Gehman commision wants to recommend that it be so reclassified
now, fine, but everyone wanted to pretend otherwise through the end of
January of this year.

It's also pointless to reclassify it if it still winds up being
used mainly as an operational vehicle.

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Phil Fraering "Oh, so now Mike's the nut, Roger's the good
one, and I'm the bad guy?"