Xref: utzoo sci.space:8493 sci.space.shuttle:2070 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!gatech!ncar!umigw!gables!gtww2z9z%gables.span From: gtww2z9z%gables.span@umigw.miami.edu (Jason Gross) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle Subject: New light, different focus... Message-ID: Date: 26 Nov 88 00:43:36 GMT Organization: University of Miami (IR) Lines: 40 Well, for my first posting on the net, I have garnered an amazing response. Unfortunately, a good deal of it is negative. But before I try to rebuff some of the comments I've seen, let me apologize to Mr. Spencer for stating that he is a idiot. He's seems (from what I've seen) to be an intelligent and informed person. Now, with that out of the way, let's begin. I'm sorry that at least one of you out there considers by opinion "naive". I an not unaware of what has happened to my neighbor NASA these days. With reports of coverups and suppressions of the truth and other nasty stuff, I am a little disheartened by it all. Worst of all, I terribly saddened by the fact that we could do an immensely better job, except that some pinheads in Washington think it more fun to play politics rather than playing getting down to work. But thought it all, I still have faith in NASA that they'll weather this storm and come back to its rightful place. Call me idealistically optimistic, but that how it think it'll be. And to clarify a point I made, at this point in time, I believe the Soviets to be in the lead of the Space Race. They have made accomplishments where we have had failures. But again, I don't see whe we should just say "Okay, that's it ladies and gentlemen. For now on, the show's gonna be run from Baikonur!" Now is our chance to do what should have been done all along: define what we want to do in space. Do we want to go commercial? Do we want a space station? Do we want more planetary exploration (manned or unmanned)? All we want to do now is get the shuttle flying again! Well, we just did that. So now what? Uh, let's launch another. Yeah! That's it! Okay, what then? Well, don't ask me these silly questions! Ya see, we could be just as busy as the Sovs, but we are just running around like a chicken with no head. I just hope that someday soon, we find that head again and put it back! -- Jason Gross Comp Sci Ugrad University of Miami Class of '91 (?) =========================================================================== "Women. You can't live | Mail your invigorating replies to: | For with them, and you can't | GTWW2Z9Z%Gables.Span@Umigw.Miami.Edu | Sale: shoot them, either." | (What a lovely address, isn't it now?) | $.05 ======================================================== IBM Sucks Silicon!