nobodys old friend wrote:

did you chatch the Head of NASA condeming the shuttle and the ISS as
failures

Funny...no one else is saying that.

Seems everyone else is STILL using the shuttle AND the Space
Station...Which I had a chance to observe at 05:36CDT Wednesday
morning...spectacular. (www.science.nasa.gov) And they intend to do
so for many years to come.

Keep trying to "score one", Mark. One day you'll actually do it.

I HAVE read about numerous persons saying that the "mission" has
outgrown the shuttle...That the Shuttle, esentially 1970's technology,
should be updated...Just like the automakers bring out new model years.

No one ever expected the Shuttle to the "end all" of the manned
space program. It's just time to go on to bigger and better.

Heck, Mark...The Shuttle's "younger" than YOU are, yet done far
more in it's lifetime than you've done in yours.

Steve, K4YZ