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From: lad@eplrx7.UUCP (Lawrence Dziegielewski)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,sci.space
Subject: Re: Things aint so bad
Message-ID: <474@eplrx7.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 09:25:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: eplrx7.474
Posted: Fri Sep 11 09:25:48 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 16:19:58 EDT
References: <13312@amdahl.amdahl.com>, <7973@think.UUCP> <8561@utzoo.UUCP>
Organization: E.I. DuPont Co. Engineering Physics Lab
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Summary: Soviets do it better?????
Xref: mnetor sci.space.shuttle:305 sci.space:2845

In article <8561@utzoo.UUCP>, henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
> > Even granting its problems, we DO have the shuttle; no-one else
> > presently has anything nearly as zippy...
> 
> Anything nearly as zippy, no.  This has nothing much to do with usefulness,
> though.  The Soviet hardware consistently does almost everything better than
> the Shuttle does it, albeit less glamorously.  Almost the only thing the
> 
I don't know where you're getting your information,  but the Soviets have
NOTHING that can compare to the shuttle.  There is nothing on the pad
anywhere in the Soviet Union that even remotely resembles the shuttle.  And
there's no way you can get me to beleive that ANY Russian hardware performs 
better than the shuttle. And 'glitz' or 'zippiness'  has nothing to do with
it. 

The Soviets do not have the capability of transporting payloads into space
and returing with other payloads.  They do not have the capability of
sending teams of scientists and technicians into space all at once like we
can with the shuttle.  
> 
> However, our most fundamental problem -- the damn boosters cost too much
> and fly too seldom -- will NOT be solved this way.  This is a big, nasty,

Cost too much?  Maybe,  but if flown like they were in '85 and '86 the cost
comes way down.   The cost of flying the shuttle will remian high until we
get them going regularly again (soon,  I hope).  Besides,  high technology
is expensive,  and the shuttle is probably the most advanced space vehicle
in the world today.  IT'S WORTH IT.

Get on the stick and get with the program,  man.  Or at least get the right
information.



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