"Greg Kuperberg" wrote in message
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That is just such lame backpedalling. The man was on national television,
alone on camera with a prepared, vetted manuscript. He looked straight
into the camera and told the American people, "In 2010, the space shuttle,
after nearly 30 years of duty, will be retired from service." Not only
was it a direct national address, it was Bush's last direct national
address on space policy. So it both a direct and unqualified statement
about NASA's future. And anyone who missed it is free to download this
direct national address from the White House web site:

I seem to recall a televised statement by a certain president directing NASA
to build a space station "and do it within a decade". That timetable
certainly slipped all to hell.

If you actually think STS *will* retire in 2010 you have no idea how the
gummint works.

-Kim-