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July 13th 05, 05:43 AM
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Heard on NPR: NASA Seeks to Define Space Station Mission
"The space shuttle program exists to build the space station. American taxpayers have spent $35 billion in space station hardware
and many billions more for shuttle flights. But the orbiting facility is still searching for a purpose." Even before its flawed optics were fixed, the Hubble had a well focused purpose. "The space agency is struggling to find a role for the partially built facility, even as it shifts its focus to other, even more ambitious projects." The story can be heard here. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4748495 Sad. -- Hilton Evans Randolph, MA --------------------------------------------------------------- ChemPen Chemical Structure Software http://www.chempensoftware.com --------------------------------------------------------------- Lon -71° 04' 35.3" Lat +42° 11' 06.7" --------------------------------------------------------------- Webcam Astroimaging http://home.earthlink.net/~hiltoneva...troimaging.htm 
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July 14th 05, 08:20 AM
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Write the reactionary congressman of your choice.... or just call your
local chamber of commerce! David Nakamoto wrote: What do you expect from a device created to satisfy the ultimate least common denominator, many countries with many more space agencies and even more objectives. You might as well get the best chefs from all the various major cuisines together and have them prepare ONE dish. And no, I don't want seconds of it . . . nor firsts. All this has done is drain money from things we definitely needed in order to do real stuff in space - a real reusable, cheap manned transport vehicle AND a set of unmanned boosters, and more research in autonomous ways of doing things, among other things. --- Dave -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pinprick holes in a colorless sky Let inspired figures of light pass by The Mighty Light of ten thousand suns Challenges infinity, and is soon gone "Hilton Evans" wrote in message hlink.net... "The space shuttle program exists to build the space station. American taxpayers have spent $35 billion in space station hardware and many billions more for shuttle flights. But the orbiting facility is still searching for a purpose." Even before its flawed optics were fixed, the Hubble had a well focused purpose. "The space agency is struggling to find a role for the partially built facility, even as it shifts its focus to other, even more ambitious projects." The story can be heard here. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4748495 Sad. -- Hilton Evans Randolph, MA --------------------------------------------------------------- ChemPen Chemical Structure Software http://www.chempensoftware.com --------------------------------------------------------------- Lon -71° 04' 35.3" Lat +42° 11' 06.7" --------------------------------------------------------------- Webcam Astroimaging http://home.earthlink.net/~hiltoneva...troimaging.htm
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July 14th 05, 08:25 AM
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Well whatever this all means, the rest of the npr story you cite said
the space station is not finished and 28 shuttle flights are planned to 'finish construction of the space station". Maybe if one more shuttle blows up that will be reduced to a monkey on an Estes rocket? By the way, NPR has prioved almost as much a disappointment as NASA. I wonder if they are run by the same political correctness slouching toward total ambivalence? Hilton Evans wrote: "The space shuttle program exists to build the space station. American taxpayers have spent $35 billion in space station hardware and many billions more for shuttle flights. But the orbiting facility is still searching for a purpose." Even before its flawed optics were fixed, the Hubble had a well focused purpose. "The space agency is struggling to find a role for the partially built facility, even as it shifts its focus to other, even more ambitious projects." The story can be heard here. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4748495 Sad. -- Hilton Evans Randolph, MA --------------------------------------------------------------- ChemPen Chemical Structure Software http://www.chempensoftware.com --------------------------------------------------------------- Lon -71° 04' 35.3" Lat +42° 11' 06.7" --------------------------------------------------------------- Webcam Astroimaging http://home.earthlink.net/~hiltoneva...troimaging.htm
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July 14th 05, 12:40 PM
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"Thanks" wrote in message ...
Well whatever this all means, the rest of the npr story you cite said the space station is not finished and 28 shuttle flights are planned to 'finish construction of the space station". Maybe if one more shuttle blows up that will be reduced to a monkey on an Estes rocket? By the way, NPR has prioved almost as much a disappointment as NASA. I wonder if they are run by the same political correctness slouching toward total ambivalence? Huh? -- Hilton Evans --------------------------------------------------------------- Lon -71° 04' 35.3" Lat +42° 11' 06.7" --------------------------------------------------------------- Webcam Astroimaging http://home.earthlink.net/~hiltoneva...troimaging.htm --------------------------------------------------------------- ChemPen Chemical Structure Software http://www.chempensoftware.com
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