SS Columbia Safety

Abrigon Gusiq wrote:

Was not one of the problems with the whole Shuttle program was it was
a compromise between several agencies needs and wants?

Not as much as some would have you believe. Shuttle was already
evolving in it's current direction even before NASA started courting
other customers.

Had NASA built their alternative Shuttle, basically a 75% scale model
of the current one, they'd have been even worse off because it
wouldn't actually be able to do anything useful.

Wild that there is talk about reviving the Buran the Soviet Shuttle.

http://www.russiatoday.com/scitech/news/33330

Wild talk is all it is and all it will ever be.

D.
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Oct 5th, 2004 JDL