On 13 Apr 2005 08:12:45 -0700, in a place far, far away, "Ed Kyle"
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

Well, I don't think Congress will do either (most likely the shuttle
will stop flying in 2010 and CEV will never happen), but if they did
decide to bring CEV forward and gave NASA the money to do so, they
could blame NASA if they lost one. If they ignored Bush and told NASA
to keep the shuttle flying after 2010, they'd be the ones blamed,
instead... after all, having lost two, 'everyone' knows the shuttle
is
a death-trap now.


We've discussed this before, so you might do a search
on shuttle vs. soyuz reliability. Shuttle's record is
no worse than Soyuz or Shenzhou or Apollo, etc.. There
is no reason to expect that CEV would be much better.

In terms of killing people, it should be better, since it will have an
abort system.