On May 3, 10:47 am, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote:
"Henry Spencer" wrote in message


The fact that Thiokol was bidding segmented SRBs -- an established
technology that was well proven on Titan IIIC -- against the novel and
uncertain technology of big one-piece SRBs. Remember, the #1 priority
for the shuttle boosters was low development cost; had that not been the
dominant issue, they would have been liquids, not solids.

And that's probably still one of the biggest short-sighted mistakes with the
Shuttle.

Yes, but not quite as big a short-sighted mistake as the whole project
was.