To the Moon: Rocketdyne, Keeper of the Flame

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When historians write about the last 30 years...

...they will shake their heads at the resources
spent on the shuttle at the expense of other
programs. (The ISS was basically a make-work
program to justify the shuttle) At around $1-
billion per launch, it would have made more
sense to just keep sending up Saturn IB and V
boosters. It would have been cheaper, and they
could get payloads beyond the 400 miles that the
shuttle must struggle to get to.

At this point in history, we should have at
least had continuously operating probes on
nearly every solid planet.

Posted by: JohnMcGrew@...   Posted on: 07/17/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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