In Leaked Email, NASA Chief Vents On Shuttle Program's End

jerryasher writes "In a leaked memo, NASA Administrator Mike Griffin discusses 'the jihad' to prematurely terminate the Shuttle and what that means for the International Space Station. One implication: there may come a long interval when only our Russian Allies are aboard the Space Station. Add that bit of irony to your new cold war kit and then wonder why Griffin discusses why we wouldn't sabotage the Space Station, and how and why the memo got leaked in the first place."

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Re:My problem with the article

[rainer_d]

AFAIK, the construction-plans to build the Apollo rockets have more or less been "misplaced".
The factories and machines to build the parts have long been dismantled and destroyed.
And Wernher von Braun died over 31 years ago...
Maybe there's a new Wernher von Braun in Iran, who is just waiting for an offer for US-citizenship (after the war, of course)? ;-)

Saint Saddam Hussein

[toddhisattva]

Well, what Russia did is small potatoes compared to what America's foreign policy has been for quite some time. They have attacked a country without provocation and have been occupying it for the past 5 years

What a pile of horseshit.

If you're talking about Iraq*, its actions under Saddam Hussein were perfect examples of provocation. Indeed, Iraq acted so badly that President Bill Clinton -- a Democrat and therefore a super-genius! -- President Clinton repeatedly launched missiles in its general direction.

It's good that you're able to forget, just to make a smartassed comment.

if the US set the example returning to a non-interventionist foreign policy

If the US did that you'd be bitching about the ISOLATIONIST United States.

Because you're just another aintellectual working backwards from the conclusion "the United States is wrong" and selectively omitting facts until you've got a cute little joke.

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* it's necessary to have this qualifier, because the fantasyland you inhabit might have the United States invading Canadia or Oblivia and occupying Dakistan for the past five years.