Frank

I disagree with you about the shuttle being a piece of junk. even I am not
familiar with NASA development at all.
I think (and you can of course correct me if I am wrong) most of the shuttle
is *REAL* hi-tech even for the upcoming years.

But again, I'm not an expert in the space/aeronautic field.
Tal

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[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Frank Babis
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 7:55 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: it look like NASA lost the columbia!


>
> I don't understand how it happened...Billions of dollars to produce
> Super-super-hi-tech shuttle & equipment. the best of the best materials,
> special human teams, special and very unique technologies.
>
> and a disaster like that?
>
> I can't understand it!
>
> Tal

Well, consider that the shuttles were designed in the 70's
and NASA has to scrounge/scavenge 8086 286 and 386
CPU's to keep the shuttles systems going.

The shuttles were high tech 15 years ago. Now they mostly
consist of junk that most people wouldn't think twice about
throwing away.

My father said he hoped that people wouldn't use this disaster
as a reason to shut NASA down or even cut it's funding. I hope
that this disaster would make people want to put more money
into the space program to build a new space vehicle.


-Frank

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