November 17, 2009

Shuttle Retirement

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Flying better than ever---and safer! Tell us again how it makes even political "sense" to retire Shuttle, layoff 2-3K of American space workers, take half of the money the US "saves" and give it to Russian space workers to keep building Soyuz and Progress vehicles that the US will pay out the nose for--and that have No down payload capability, much less about a 10th of the up capability of the Shuttle! Brilliant!

 I am not sure.  I see both sides of the coin.  Hopefully, soon, unless I already missed it, the Obama Administration will tell us one way or the other what we are doing.  Last night my mother told me that they were going to fix all this by getting rid of Obama next election.  The thought of another election turnover in another three years makes my head spin.  I can't tell you how tumultuous a change every four years is.  You can't do anything in four years.  Maybe that is the point.

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