Especially if you consider that the head of the Senate appropriations committee
(which decides NASA funding) is headed by Senator Hatch (R-Utah). The same
Senator Hatch who, just coincidentally, got a Space Shuttle ride a couple of
years ago. Yes, I can say pork-barrel (through clenched teeth) - these are my
hard earned tax dollars being pissed away.
Dennis
SpeedSites@aol.com wrote:
> One more note:
>
> The Thiokol boosters that destroyed the Challnger were, of course, only built
> in sections with O-rings because Thiokol insisted on building them in Utah
> and shipping them in vessels large enough to accomodate one section at a
> time. The USAF was experiementing with one-piece composite SRB's, but that
> project was cancelled. Can you say "Pork-Barrels"?
>
> Must have been much like like the thought of improving the TR6, when you
> could build the (*wonderful*) TR7 and piss away more $$ than had been spent
> on the TR line to date.... (don't flame me, I had/survived one)
>
> Rod Pyle
> 69 TR6
> 57 Healey (boxed)
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