Re: starship-design: Explaining Thirty Years Of Fudge

[KellySt@aol.com]

Surprized this didn't at least make the news.  Not that any of it is that 
surprizing.

His handwaving about getting folks excited about flights to low earth orbit 
was very sad -- or whisteling in a grave yard.  "Boldly going... to the 
frount yard to get the mail.." is not going to excite the masses.


In a message dated 5/11/03 9:32:53 AM, lparker@cacaphony.net writes:

>Explaining Thirty Years Of Fudge
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>by Bruce Moomaw
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>Sacramento - May 02, 2003
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>While a great deal of the testimony before the Columbia Accident
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>Investigation Board has been newsworthy to non-specialists -- and the Board
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>has by now made it plain that it does not intend to serve as the blind
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>puppets of NASA's officials -- nothing in it up until April 23 could be
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>described as "explosive".