On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 03:30:45 +0100, in a place far, far away, Cardman
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 00:55:38 GMT, h (Rand
Simberg) wrote:

No, the real problems are that the Shuttle is too expensive, too
fragile, and every accident make a fleet that's already too small
smaller, by an increasing percentage.

Well there is always the option to buy more, not that they would.

No, because it would be a foolish expenditure.

NASA has too many of
them, and if they don't want to take the risk, they'd have no trouble
find more who will.

True, but they also won't like you if you keep blowing them up.

Who cares? There are plenty more where they came from. No one's
holding a gun to their head to make them be astronauts.

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