Thread: Military vs Civilian Orbital Laboratories, Vehicles, and Crews
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Old March 12th 08, 04:01 PM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.station,sci.space.shuttle,sci.space.history
Rand Simberg[_1_]
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Default Military vs Civilian Orbital Laboratories, Vehicles, and Crews
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:52:48 -0700 (PDT), in a place far, far away,
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such
a way as to indicate that:

On Mar 12, 8:28 am, wrote:
The Shuttle got funded,
but not without getting a huge makeover by the Airforce that
dramatically increased development cost with wings engines and tiles
it didn't really need and the Army, that mandated SRBs which were
dangerous and low performing, in lieu of a fully reusable first stage,
increased operating costs.

Among with the other crazy non existent crap in your rant,

The Army had nothing to do with the Shuttle

Mook seems to be going more and more over the deep end in recent
years. Be careful. If you disagree with him, he'll call you evil.