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- From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
- Subject: Re: Latest Pegasus news?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.021749.3637@iti.org>
- Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
- References: <1992Dec27.164247.20711@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Dec27.203327.21241@iti.org> <72487@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 02:17:49 GMT
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- In article <72487@cup.portal.com> BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn) writes:
- >>We may all be thankful that the people at OSC are willing to try things
- >>to see if they will work.
-
- > What do you call the TSS tether experiments this summer?
-
- I call it another example of good research and development we need more of.
-
- > Brand new technology that could revolutionize orbital transfer and power
- > generation.
-
- Exactly.
-
- > That was those despicable fools at NASA doing this.
-
- here you lost me. You seem to live in a very black and white world. You
- assume that since I don't support everything NASA does (even its mistakes)
- that I must oppose everything NASA does.
-
- This is not the case. There is lots of great stuff going on at NASA. I
- criticize the unproductive things NASA does so that we can have more of
- the good stuff. Why does that bother you so much?
-
- > Just because NASA isn't deep in development of a new space booster
- > (why bother when SDIO already is)
-
- NASA shouldn't be developing OR operating any operational space transport
- system. That is outside its charter and is ultimately wasteful and harmful
- to lower cost solutions.
-
- > doesn't mean that they aren't
- > doing important work. Just about everything they do on the Spacelab
- > missions is the (ahem) dull background work needed before going on
- > to bigger and better things.
-
- Without doubt. The problem is that you seem to think asking the question: "is
- there a cheaper way to do this" is treason.
-
- As an engineer I ask myself that same question every single day. Why do you
- think NASA shouldn't worry about the costs?
-
- > It's not fair to denounce NASA for
- > laying the foundation while praising OSC and McDAC for erecting the
- > skyscrapers.
-
- Pegasus is the subject of this thread so that is what I mentioned.
-
- As to denouncing NASA, I praise NASA when they lay the foundation. I
- condemn them when they prevent the skyscraper from being built.
-
- Allen
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