[FPSPACE] reaction to Columbia from some French astronauts
Dokter Nuyens
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http://www.spacedaily.com/2003/030201221302.dwiwy6hf.html has reaction
to the Columbia accident from French astronauts (or spationauts as the
French would have it). Quoted are Patrick Baudry, Michel Tognini, and
Phillipe Perrin, all of whom have flown in space on space shuttles,
Tognini on Columbia. Here's the start of the article:
A French astronaut who took part in an earlier US shuttle mission and
has criticised current space programmes said Saturday the shuttle
Columbia which disintegrated should have been out of use long
ago.Patrick Baudry said on French television he was "up in arms" over
the disaster.
"I think the shuttle should have been taken out of use long ago," =
Baudry
said: "It's a magnificent machine that the Americans developed. But
extremely dangerous." The Frenchman charged that the Columbia was
limited in its capacity, and yet had to serve the International Space
Station (ISS) "about which nobody knows exactly what it's for and =
which
I personally don't think really serves much purpose."
Baudry, a former fighter pilot, was a cosmonaut with a Soviet team
aboard a Soviet spacecraft in the first French venture into space in
1982.
I think that last paragraph is incorrect. Baudry did fly on a Soyuz, I
think, but after his shuttle flight, and Jean-Loup Chretien, who has
also flown on the shuttle, was France's first space traveler, on a
Soyuz.
While I appreciate the words of Tognini and Perrin, I find Baudry's
remarks insensitive and out of place. Even if I believed as he does, I
would choose a different day and different words to express my opinion.
It just goes to show that being intelligent and skilled is no guarantee
against being a lout.
And what is his point in the second paragraph? He doesn't like the ISS,
which Columbia was less capable of serving. So? He's just looking for
things to complain about, and that sounds like "this food sucks and the
portions are too small".
I agree,Baudry's comment is misplacedBaudry flew on the shuttle in 1985, =
he never flew on soyuz
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to the Columbia accident from French astronauts (or spationauts as the
French would have it). Quoted are Patrick Baudry, Michel Tognini, and
Phillipe Perrin, all of whom have flown in space on space shuttles,
Tognini on Columbia. Here's the start of the article:
<EM> A French astronaut who took part in an earlier US shuttle mission =
and
has criticised current space programmes said Saturday the shuttle
Columbia which disintegrated should have been out of use long
ago.Patrick Baudry said on French television he was "up in arms" over
the disaster.
"I think the shuttle should have been taken out of use long ago," =
Baudry
said: "It's a magnificent machine that the Americans developed. But
extremely dangerous." The Frenchman charged that the Columbia was
limited in its capacity, and yet had to serve the International Space
Station (ISS) "about which nobody knows exactly what it's for and =
which
I personally don't think really serves much purpose."
Baudry, a former fighter pilot, was a cosmonaut with a Soviet team
aboard a Soviet spacecraft in the first French venture into space in
1982.
I think that last paragraph is incorrect. Baudry did fly on a Soyuz, I
think, but after his shuttle flight, and Jean-Loup Chretien, who has
also flown on the shuttle, was France's first space traveler, on a
Soyuz.
While I appreciate the words of Tognini and Perrin, I find Baudry's
remarks insensitive and out of place. Even if I believed as he does, I
would choose a different day and different words to express my opinion.
It just goes to show that being intelligent and skilled is no guarantee
against being a lout.
And what is his point in the second paragraph? He doesn't like the ISS,
which Columbia was less capable of serving. So? He's just looking for
things to complain about, and that sounds like "this food sucks and the
portions are too small".</EM>
</PRE><PRE>I agree,Baudry's comment is misplaced</PRE><PRE>Baudry flew =
on the shuttle in 1985, he never flew on soyuz
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