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Old August 15th 03, 02:15 AM
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I've read a lot of people treating NASA's Return to Flight schedule as a
sick joke at best.

I'd like to remind everyone that someone once went to speak to the
Experimental Test Pilot's Association, and less than a year and a half
after a major NASA disaster had to give a speech about what NASA would
accomplish in the next year.

That man felt so uncertain about the NASA timelines he held in his hands
that he hedged his bets and failed to tell this assemblage what NASA was
already advertising. Even though he, himself, would end up playing a
critical role in the events of the following year.

I'm speaking, of course, of Mike Collins, who spoke to the Experimental
Test Pilot's Association in September, 1968. The NASA documents he held
in his hands indicated preliminary planning for CSM-107 to orbit the moon
while LM-5 landed on it, in July, 1969. He thought that timeline was
outrageously optimistic, so he refused to quote it.

As we all know, it came to pass exactly as written.

So, don't underestimate the ability of determined people to accomplish
goals that seem outrageously optimistic. It's happened before.

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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for | Doug Van Dorn
thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup |

 




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