(Greg Kuperberg) wrote in
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In article ,
Jorge R. Frank wrote:
So who exactly do you think will be brave enough to take
responsibility for keeping the shuttle flying past 2010?
Currently we have a fixed date to stop flights,
The "fixed" date is in fact completely arbitrary, so stretching it
will not require much bravery.

It would require the courage, or maybe the cowardice, to contradict a
direct and explicit promise from the President of the United States to
the American people.

That was not a promise by any reasonable definition.

And it doesn't change the fact that the date was, in fact, arbitrary.


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