Pat Flannery wrote:

Derek Lyons wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:

Because it's their spaceship, and if you want to use it, it's up to you.
If you say that you don't want to use it, then go ahead and find or
build a alternative to use. They'll still go up to and down from the ISS
in it, there just won't be any US astronauts on board during those trips.

Nice way to ignore the second half of the statement.


Well, everyone knows that the thing has demonstrated way off-kilter
behavior on a lot of its flights, so that the reliability (particularly
regarding reentry) is pretty poor.

Which doesn't lessen the hurricane level handwaving you and Jeff are
indulging in one bit.

You are measuring it against the Shuttle, when you should be measure it
against something like it in concept, say Gemini or the Apollo CSM.

No, I'm attempting to measure it against an objective standard. You
and Jeff are doing everything possible to avoid doing so.

D.
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Oct 5th, 2004 JDL