[FPSPACE] Goodbye Mike, and all that...

[Peter Pesavento]

EPG,

 

Your commentaries on Griffin's speech were at times funny, and at other
times very sad.

 

AND IN THE MEANTIME, WITHOUT DOUBT, WE WOULD HAVE CONTINUED TO MODIFY,
REFINE, AND INCREMENTALLY IMPROVE THE OLD APOLLO DESIGNS, TO THE POINT WHERE
THEY WOULD HAVE PROVIDED GREATLY ENHANCED EFFECTIVENESS BY THE PRESENT DAY.

IF WE HAD DONE ALL THIS, WE WOULD BE ON MARS TODAY, NOT WRITING ABOUT IT AS
A SUBJECT FOR THE NEXT 50 YEARS.

 

It sounds like Griffin is advocating the Soviet design model (somewhat)-of
incremental improvements while keeping assembly lines open.

 

But Griffin is a creature of his times.BushWorld, that is.  "We create our
own reality" (real quote, and attributed to Dick Cheney, although the quote
was not connected to a specific cabinet-level Bush person that I recall, but
the inference was there)

 

We're no longer in BushWorld.

 

I think US manned exploration may face challenges to its viability really
soon-like perhaps this year (foreign events may overtake Obama's plans).

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