Alan Anderson ) wrote:
: " wrote:

: Paul F. Dietz wrote:
: EELV is probably too expensive also. But Scott, the faults of
: any particular alternative do not justify the current loser approach.
:
: And the faults in this approach do not justify assuming that it's a
: "loser."

: Paul is not assuming any such thing. He's *concluding* it.

: No, terminating the manned space program is clearly a better approach.
:
: boggle
:
: Yeah. Right.

: If the goal is more affordable spaceflight for people, there is a
: compelling argument to be made for returning NASA to its NACA roots and
: getting it out of the spaceflight operations business.

And then we'd have no spaceflight...