shuttle disaster

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begin  Keith Antoine's  quote:

| From what we are seing on the news here they seem to be admitting
| to  somewhat lax proceedures. Cost cutting having an effect?

to some extent, but that goes back to the early 1970s. from day one, 
the shuttle program has been both pointless and inefficient (which 
hasn't prevented corruption; for instance, rockwell used shuttle 
money to develop the landing gear for the b-1 bomber, which it kind 
of wedged onto the shuttle, causing some problems early on).

the body of knowledge of space and things that happen there, as well 
as the number of satellites in orbit, would not have been reduced one 
iota if the shuttle had never existed; indeed, the argument can be 
made that with the same money put into expendibles we would have more 
space science and more satellites.
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