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Old 07-05-2006, 01:30 PM   #6
Kitsune
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Originally Posted by tw
They had no choice. Appreciate how close the entire shuttle and ISS is to total collapse and disintegration. Appreciate how many other nations would have spent $bilions that would never get used. Every shuttle launch from here on out is a crap shoot where snake eyes is the complete and utter disaster for both ISS and America's only manned program. Appreciate how close to the edge NASA has come, in part, because almost all their eggs are in only one basket.
So, are you suggesting we abandon it, should never have started it, or should have had an alternate vehicle by now?
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