From: "an_old_friend" Tues 9 Aug 2005 10:41


wrote:
The Space Shuttle made it back safely this morning. (Collective sigh of
relief).

Anyone living in or near Los Angeles HEARD it most distinctly.

Double boom a few minutes after 5 AM.

But it will be a while before any more Space Shuttles fly again. More
problems to fix.

[Jimmie know how to fix, he gots two degrees and reads a lot]

I noted that NASA made a point of referring to this mission as a "test
flight"...

In any event, the Shuttle program is nearing its conclusion. NASA is
already looking to the next generation of people-carrying space
vehicles:

Not quite an AMATEUR RADIO POLICY subject but that doesn't
deter good old Rev. Jimmie.


What does this have to do with ham radio? Plenty! For one thing,
ham radio is mentioned in the second article.

mentioned

Yawn. Jimmie still thinks this newsgroup is HIS blog...



The Space Shuttle was promoted as the "next big thing" in space travel
- as a "space truck" that would cut the cost of getting to orbit,
reducing the waste of one-time rockets, etc. We were told of turnaround
times of a few weeks, and missions costing 10 to 20 million dollars
total - none of which has ever come to pass, 30 years after the program
began.

yea the shutle was and is a failure

That's how it goes without "official" Jimmie approval... :-)


What wasn't promoted nearly so heavily was its planned role as a Cold
War DoD resource, for doing things like snatching Soviet satellites
from polar orbit, and setting up SDI platforms. Nor the
predicted failure rate of about 1 in 100.

yep the shuttle is and has been from its first launch a failure at
preforming the missions promised

that it has some use is of course true

Nah, Mark, Jimmie wasn't in on the STS "high council" so it
is a terrible failure or something.


Most of all, the amazingly complex technology of the Space Shuttle
hasn't been adequate to prevent two complete losses of vehicle and
crew.

amazing complex I slikely part of the reason they were lost and NASA
refusual to listen to anybody else

NASA never put any morse code thingy in the shuttle, Mark,
THAT"S why Jimmie thinks so badly of it...


Now some may scoff at these words from a non-rocket-scientist.

You betcha! I'm not a scientist but I've worked ON the
SSMEs (Space Shuttle Main Engines) instrumentation at
Rocketdyne.

But it
doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand what went wrong in the
Challenger disaster, nor in the Columbia one.

Jimmie KNEW what went wrong! [AFTER the fact...]


None of this is meant to belittle the accomplishments of NASA or the
bravery of the Space Shuttle crews. It does seem odd, though, that such
bravery should even be needed after 30 years and billions of dollars
spent on the Space Shuttle program.

Let's all ask Shrub to put Jimmie in NASA as its new chief!

Perhaps the most important legacy of the Space Shuttle will be the
lessons learned from its problems...

not by NASA, the poor folks have lost thier way it is sad realy

"They are poor little lambs who have lost their way,
blah, blah, blah..."



Better idea...let's all LAUNCH JIMMIE into outer space!


out odd