🚀 go-pugleaf

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From: jon@oddhack.Caltech.Edu (Jon Leech)
Path: oddhack!jon

In article <201@cartan.Berkeley.EDU> desj@brahms (David desJardins) writes:
>In article <7279@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> [...]  Not risky enough not to do it, but risky enough to think twice
>>about launching one-of-a-kind payloads like the Space Telescope.  The
>>loss of a single military payload wouldn't be a tenth of the disaster
>>that losing the HST would be.
>
>   As much as I agree with your sentiment (that shuttle launches should
>resume ASAP), the above makes no real sense, except perhaps politically.
>The $1G HST doesn't add significantly to the risk of losing the $2.5G
>orbiter (certainly not "ten times"!).
>
>   -- David desJardins

    The only qualified people (the current members of the Astronaut Corps)
say they will be happy to fly it - as soon as the SRBs are understood,
fixed, and tested (at least, this is what Sally Ride said in a talk she
gave at Caltech last night). Since these are the people who have been putting
their lives on the line all along, I tend to trust their judgement. By the 
time any of the well-meaning volunteers could be trained, the joint redesign 
and testing program will hopefully be completed anyway.

    -- Jon Leech (jon@csvax.caltech.edu || ...seismo!cit-vax!jon)
    Caltech Computer Science Graphics Group
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