NASA understatement of the year

"We dropped the ball."
-Rich

wrote:
"We dropped the ball."

They really said that? Wow!

Not a ball and not a ballgame.

Phil

wrote:
"We dropped the ball."

They really said that? Wow!

Not a ball and not a ballgame.

Phil

wrote:

"We dropped the ball."
-Rich

http://www.caib.us/news/report/default.html

wrote:

"We dropped the ball."
-Rich

http://www.caib.us/news/report/default.html

As a UK resident, I can only admire the US space program. They may have dropped
the ball this time, but let us hope that nothing mad happens, such as the
shuttle program itself being dropped. No one was more sorry over the loss than
I, but it should continue. There I go again, spending someone else's money .

If they need fodder for any shuttle tests, I will be there in 10 seconds flat!

Regards,

Geoff GJ

As a UK resident, I can only admire the US space program. They may have dropped
the ball this time, but let us hope that nothing mad happens, such as the
shuttle program itself being dropped. No one was more sorry over the loss than
I, but it should continue. There I go again, spending someone else's money .

If they need fodder for any shuttle tests, I will be there in 10 seconds flat!

Regards,

Geoff GJ

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:11:35 -0700, lal_truckee
wrote:

GeoffGJONES wrote:

As a UK resident, I can only admire the US space program. They may have dropped
the ball this time, but let us hope that nothing mad happens, such as the
shuttle program itself being dropped. No one was more sorry over the loss than
I, but it should continue. There I go again, spending someone else's money .

If they need fodder for any shuttle tests, I will be there in 10 seconds flat!

Congress and NASA need to ask Magellan about acceptable losses when
exploring new frontiers...

Make a cheaper launch system, shoot up thousands instead of sevens, lose
hundreds, and let's get into space permanently. Our ancesters weren't
such wimps or most of the posters to this forum wouldn't be posting from
where they are now; why are we so risk adverse?

I volunteer.

There is nothing wrong with the Shuttle, only the people who run it.
-Rich

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:11:35 -0700, lal_truckee
wrote:

GeoffGJONES wrote:

As a UK resident, I can only admire the US space program. They may have dropped
the ball this time, but let us hope that nothing mad happens, such as the
shuttle program itself being dropped. No one was more sorry over the loss than
I, but it should continue. There I go again, spending someone else's money .

If they need fodder for any shuttle tests, I will be there in 10 seconds flat!

Congress and NASA need to ask Magellan about acceptable losses when
exploring new frontiers...

Make a cheaper launch system, shoot up thousands instead of sevens, lose
hundreds, and let's get into space permanently. Our ancesters weren't
such wimps or most of the posters to this forum wouldn't be posting from
where they are now; why are we so risk adverse?

I volunteer.

There is nothing wrong with the Shuttle, only the people who run it.
-Rich

wrote:
There is nothing wrong with the Shuttle, only the people who run it.

Rich, you are so full of it. I have had it. We are subjected to your
endless whining month after month, year after year. I'm so sick of
hearing you whine about the rest of humanity and what idiots, liars,
cheats, and morons we all are. I have never, ever read anything
positive about anyone from you.

You sir, and are a classic misanthrope.

I'll take those at NASA who dropped the ball any day over some
know-it-all who never got off the sidelines himself and whose sum
contribution is to remind the rest of humanity what idiots we all are on
some stupid newsgroup.

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