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New NASA Shuttle Program "Doomed To Failure"

Posted by Hemos on from the spending-the-money dept.

Heartbreak writes "In a recent press release, the Space Frontier Foundation warns that NASA's Oribital Space Plane program, its latest initiative to take the load off the aging STS (the 'Space Shuttle'), is essentially doomed before it starts. 'NASA's unbroken string of cancelled vehicle programs' going back 20 years makes it a good bet that OSP will also fail. Is this just really, really, bad luck, or is NASA little more than a multi-billion-dollar jobs program for important U.S. aerospace contractors?"

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  1. Of course there will be a lot of failures ... by Vertex+Operator · · Score: 5, Funny

    NASA isn't run by rocket scientists, after all.
    Oh, wait, ...

    -Chris

    --
    San Diego Padres, 100 Park Blvd, San Diego CA 92101

    It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by
  2. Re:NASA critical parody by buzzbomb · · Score: 4, Funny

    Internet access on Mars? Hmmm...

    buzzbomb@mars:~$ ping yahoo.com
    PING yahoo.com (64.58.79.230): 56 octets data
    64 octets from 64.58.79.230: icmp_seq=0 ttl=242 time=757610.6 ms
    64 octets from 64.58.79.230: icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=757638.2 ms
    64 octets from 64.58.79.230: icmp_seq=2 ttl=242 time=757620.5 ms

    --- yahoo.com ping statistics ---
    3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
    round-trip min/avg/max = 757610.6/757623.1/757638.2 ms


    Well, it's faster than the actual implementation of RFC 1149.