Larry- The X-33 (half-size prototype) and Dynastar projects intended to be "next generation" shuttles had a lot of technical problems. The administration decided to cancel them.
And there is no longer an assembly line for the existing shuttle design. Would be very expensive to re-create one. In today's fiscal and political climate, doesn't look promising for manned space flight. -Ben At 12:36 PM 2/1/03 -0500, you wrote: >Probably not. There is a Soyuu capsule still attached to the station >that they can use for reentry, and there's a resupply flight >scheduled for later this month. > >So many failures. Gel you need to look at the record of the European >Space Agency's record for the Arianne rocket - so far of the 25 >launches, 10 were failures. > >The shuttle is the most complex system ever to fly, its amazing that >it has such a good record. In comparison, look at the start of >aviation, and especially flights across the atlantic. Until the 30's >there were very few direct flights, as most of those crashed. > >I am hoping that now NASA will revive the x-plane project as the >replacement for the shuttle. At the very least they need to build >another shuttle, as there now is only 3 space shuttles. > >larry > >>There are still 3 astronauts in space though... >> >>I guess they'll be shi***ing bricks now. >> >>But it is not a cool thing to have so many failures. No other country >>has the sort of technology and experience at this as America does...so >>maybe our technology just isnt' ready for these sorts of missions. >>Maybe we should be doing R&D into some new form of propulsion other than >>explosive rocket fuel and throwing a lot of effort toward that. >> >>-Gel >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> >>Gel, >> >>you have no idea of the complexity involved. NASA has a remarkable >>safety record. We do not know what happened. I do not think we should >>criticize until more is known. >> >>larry >> >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
