Thread: Shuttle program extension?
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Old September 18th 08, 01:41 AM posted to sci.space.shuttle,sci.space.history,sci.space.policy,sci.space.station
Brian Thorn[_2_]
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Default Shuttle program extension?
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:19:45 GMT, h (Rand
Simberg) wrote:

It won't. Get over it. You may as well say that Carnival Cruises can
stop putting lifeboats on their ships. Never gonna happen.

Not a good analogy. Carnival Cruises isn't a cutting-edge operation
on a dangerous frontier.

Yet scores of major ships sink every year.

Or Dragon. Or put up a safe haven with an interorbital transfer
system, which is actually much simpler and cheaper.

SpaceX has yet to get a rocket to orbital velocity, after lots of big
talk and digs at the established players. I have zero confidence in
them filling "the gap".

Brian