[extropy-chat] NASA administrator says space shuttle was a mistake

[Bret Kulakovich]

Hm. Finished the Apollo program, built Von Braun station* in a  
working orbit, and set foot on Mars?


Quite probably!

Perhaps Lunar manufacturing as well - depends on when the 250 billion  
was spent, and what temporal dollar it is.

]3


*
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/vonation.htm




On Sep 28, 2005, at 10:31 AM, BillK wrote:

> <http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2005-09-27-nasa-griffin- 
> interview_x.htm>
>
> Asked Tuesday whether the shuttle had been a mistake, Griffin said,
> "My opinion is that it was. ... It was a design which was extremely
> aggressive and just barely possible." Asked whether the space station
> had been a mistake, he said, "Had the decision been mine, we would not
> have built the space station we're building in the orbit we're
> building it in."
>
> The shuttle has cost the lives of 14 astronauts since the first flight
> in 1982. Roger Pielke Jr., a space policy expert at the University of
> Colorado, estimates that NASA has spent about $150 billion on the
> program since its inception in 1971. The total cost of the space
> station by the time it's finished — in 2010 or later — may exceed $100
> billion, though other nations will bear some of that.
> -------------
>
>
> So, what might they have done with 25 years and 250 billion  
> dollars?????
>
> BillK
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