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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Let's be more specific (was: Stupid Shut Cost arguements)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.173406.2200@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 17:34:06 GMT
- References: <1993Jan1.030602.21051@ke4zv.uucp> <1993Jan2.043524.15196@iti.org> <1993Jan4.191452.12294@ke4zv.uucp> <1993Jan4.214819.14834@iti.org>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
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- In <1993Jan4.214819.14834@iti.org> aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan4.191452.12294@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
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- >>>Which is indeed half the battle. But since you back Shuttle no matter what
- >>>it costs, I don't see your point.
-
- >>I back Shuttle because it's flying *now* and nothing else flying *now*
- >>has it's capabilities at *any* price.
-
- >I say again, since you back Shuttle no matter what it costs what's your
- >point?
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- Allen, are you seriously calling for an almost exact repeat of what
- happened with Shuttle development? Do you seriously believe we should
- toss the current system before we have a working, proven replacement?
- I'm sorry, but if that's the case, I have to agree with Gary on this
- one. Keep flying what we're flying until we have something else to
- fly IN HAND. Paper birds are great, and I would not be at all
- surprised to see DC work pretty much as advertised, but no matter how
- good it eventually turns out to be, we can't use a paper bird for
- current jobs.
-
- This is how we lost things like Saturn V, remember? Proponents of the
- next system, which looked great on paper, calling for stopping current
- flights "because the new bird will be so much better RSN".
-
- Let's not make the same mistake again.
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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