jsw
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Space Station or Bust or Both
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Sep 1 17:32 UTC 1998 |
Yes, in trouble again. The Russians are late, read busted, and don't
have a notion of when the parts will be ready. The project management
is in a shambles as a result, schedules are to the wind. National
Space Society has as Space Station Petition to reorganize the project
in an attempt to save it from the clutches of International idealism.
Try going to http://www.nss.org , they sound really really upset.
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russ
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response 1 of 2:
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Oct 3 23:26 UTC 1998 |
I'm sure that NNS is upset, but the real problem is that nobody
in the government really cares about having a space station.
Rather, the objectives are political and social. ISS is being
used as a make-work program to keep Russian rocket and spacecraft
designers from going off to Iraq or N. Korea and putting their
expertise to use designing missiles.
We could probably do better in THAT department by offering all
of those people visas to come here. However, once that was done
there wouldn't be any reason for the State Dept. to support the
idea of a space station at all, and NASA has no constituency
compared to, say, farm subsidies. I'm not sure anything would
improve.
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