"Martha Adams" wrote in message
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Some good art there, once I unravelled i.e. separated the above
urls. It gives me to think.

And what I think is, what a bummer from Washington. While we
killed the Apollo program and then did that shortrange diversion
to nowhere (killing some more good stuff along the way and
burning up a couple of Shuttles with people in them) the
Russians persisted, they are in their second thousand launches,
and thinking about the future.

Let's see, what have the Russians done? Killed a couple of crews and
floated around the Earth quite a few times.

Their interplanetary science program is tiny compared to what we've done.

Compared to the US, they really haven't done that much more and in many ways
have done a lot less.

And yet everyone holds them up as the paradigm of things done right.

Simply compare the number of manned flights for example.

The shuttle alone has flown more times than all Soviet and Russian manned
missions combined.



Even while the whole country
went CRASH around them. I guess that down in Washington, their
pork wars are more important than *anything* even while the
American economy goes bust and the dollar's value ...dwindles.
Grump!

Titeotwawki -- mha [sci.space.policy 2008 Jly 24]





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