Yup, but frankly I can see today's aerospace industry taking a simple, elegant,and reliable concept and turning into an over-engineered, over-subcontracted,over-managed and over-budget boondoggle which costs 5x more than originallyestimated while taking 3 times longer to develop, and ultimately proving only 1/2as capable and 1/3 as reliable.Remember that 10-year, $11 billion space station we started back in the mid-80's,with its crew of 18 and dozens of modules? ;O(Not that Apollo was without its problems, but we need a return to the "can-do"engineering spirit that got us to the moon from scratch in less than 10 years.

Return to Apollo?

Sep 09, 2003 123 Replies

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tad danley 22 years ago

At one time sci.space.history was a great news group :-(

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Darren J Longhorn 22 years ago

It still is if you set your killfile to "crispy fry".

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Jerry Irvine 22 years ago

That would be a VERY difficult shirt to win. And his risk is low unless his shirts cost as much as one of mine did :)

Jerry

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Darren J Longhorn 22 years ago

I don't recall one being won while I've been lurking there - though there have been a few claims.

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