To true, proof about a camel, a horse designed by commitee.

The idea for a USMC space assault shuttle was one idea that was forced into
the Shuttle.
Heavy Lifter as well, that should be done by a dedicated craft.
Also the lack of escape means was a major mess up as we now see.

Virgin Air and Space (?) is doing the shuttles more fun jobs, and we seem to
have shipped many of the heavy lift and satellite send ups now with China
and who else?

Like an old boss I knew, who would send cash trips (cab company) to the
major competitor in our town, so he could honor his charge accounts, well it
pissed the drivers off cause we needed money for food/gas/etc and we never
seen all the money from the trips cause he never had money. He should have
atleast sent the cash trips to someone less into destroying us, like a small
like one lung company. Now china and her proxy N.Korea have all the tech to
over run out out of the space business let along race..

Shuttle a cab company designed by an well meaning idiot.

Mike

In God we trust, all others pay cash, and Satan loves CREDIT


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Billard" <Mike@...>
To: <SPELLJAMMER-L@...>
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 10:01 AM
Subject: [SPELLJAMMER] OT Shuttle Launch


> Getting down to the last of the Shuttle flights. On the one hand it's
> tough
> to see a cool ship about to retire, on the other it's an expensive
> dinosaur
> and maintenance nightmare.
>
>
>
> http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/090710-sts127-shuttle-launch-plan.html
>
> <snip>
>
> "NASA has officially cleared the space shuttle Endeavour for its third
> launch attempt on Saturday, with the chance of thunderstorms posing the
> only
> threat to the mission after nearly a month of delays.
>
> Endeavour is poised to blast off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in
> Florida
> at 7:39 p.m. EDT (2339 GMT) to begin an ambitious
> <http://www.space.com/common/media/video/player.php?videoRef=SP_090611_sts-1
> 27-mission> 16-day flight to the International Space Station. But the
> potential for thunderstorms, rain and clouds near the Cape Canaveral
> spaceport give the shuttle just a 40 percent chance of good flight
> weather.
>
> "I don't worry about things I can't control, and I can't control the
> weather," said NASA's Mike Moses, who leads Endeavour's Mission Management
> Team, during a Friday briefing."
>
> </snip>
>
>
>
> Immediately I thought that what they need is someone from House Lyrandar
> with the Mark of Storm to clear things up.
>
>
>
> -Mike :)
>
> "Genius? Nothing! Sticking with it is the genius. I've failed my way to
> success!" -Thomas Edison
>
>
>
>
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