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D Peter Maus · August 21st 07, 10:08 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

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On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:37:12 GMT, D Peter Maus
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:14:48 GMT, D Peter Maus
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:36:02 GMT, D Peter Maus
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:10:19 GMT, D Peter Maus
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Due to come home this morning.I think the lady at NASA said 11:32 AM
Central Standard Time.
I will be watching the NASA channel, 376 on DirecTV.
cuhulin
How exciting! Are the astronauts sober? Did the love birds all get
along this trip? With Casanova astronauts, love triangles, diapers and
kidnappings and all it's a wonder they have time to be "heroes". I
guess since computers do all the important tasks that leaves the
"heroes" with plenty of free time.

What a colossal waste of taxpayers money. The make jobs operation
called NASA should have been defunded decades ago. If the egg head
PhD.'s want to play space cadets they should do it at their own
expense or by private enterprise. Instead, hard working average
Americans are forced to pay for it.

I guess you have to give credit to the NASA public relations machine
though. They've managed to perpetuate the con game for over 40 years
now in spite of the glaring incompetence of the agency.

Oooooo!!! Weeeee! More pictures of rocks and dust Mildred!!! WOW!!! I
AM SO PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!!!!!!!!

Ironic, that the very technology that permits you to publish
worldwide this diatribe about NASA....is a by-product of the space program.

but not the shuttle program which is flat out failure according to the
original specs for the machine
Care to elaborate on that claim?
the shuttle was suposed to be able to capture and repair GEO orbit
sat's for one thing
And has.
nope it has not it can't get near a GEO orbit sat only LEO

I'm not sure I agree there, having watched one sat retrieval and
repair mission while at NASA, itself. But if you're right, then in that
case, give it time. One of the reasons for the space station in to serve
as a base for deeper space missions.

it is a matter of record that th e shuttle can't get up to the geo
orbits it has retreived one maybe 2 LEO sat
I'm amazed at the ever increasing impatience of today's citizen,
expecting instant and immediate on target results without error, and
without question.

the shuttle was first launched in the 80 and still does not prefrom to
spec

what did NASA do? they cahnged the spec, and declared victory
Space exploration is as uncertain as medicine. The technology often
has to be created in order to make new thrusts. Sometimes that's years
in development, with often hundreds of balks before a qualified success.

To simply declare a program as a failure because it hasn't met
architects specifications, especially after some rather spectacular
setbacks, delays, and one very long hiatus, is the kind of unmititaged
bilge that expects war to run on schedule, without misstep and without
setback.

it can't do the tasks we built it for it is just that simple I am glad
they have things it can do but it isn't what we paid for

It is. It's just not reached its full potential, yet. For the reasons
I've stated.

and nothing is realy on the drawing board to replace it either

Because it's not ready to be replaced.