Rand Simberg ) wrote:
: On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:27:57 -0700, in a place far, far away, Charles
: Buckley made the phosphor on my monitor
: glow in such a way as to indicate that:

: 2 mission actually.. you have to count the rescue shuttle as that is
: also one taken out of production and has all the ancillary tasks also
: assigned..
:
: It says a) fly through through to a given date and b) meet these
: criteria on flying. Guess what.. one of those criteria is seriously
: compromised when you throw shuttle flights to Hubble in addition to
: those already backlogged to ISS. 27 flights. Flight rate of 6 per
: year, plus a slippage of a 2 flight cycle to allow for repair and
: other supply issues will hit that 2010 date.

: If you read between the lines of Chairman Boehlert's opening statement
: at the hearing today, it's pretty clear that ISS takes second priority
: to ending the Shuttle program in 2010. It also takes second priority
: to keeping the Iranians from getting Russian techology.

Heck, why not another Iran/Contra-like deal and cut out the Russians?

: IOW, ISS doesn't have a lot of support from the chairman. Of course,
: neither does Shuttle. And he didn't mention Hubble...

I see Star Wars and SDI are on these people's minds more so than actual
spaceflight.

Eric