Hydrogen gas leaks again from shuttle vent line - Yahoo! News »
Posted By monicachenoa 4 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & TechnologyCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – For the second time in under a week, hydrogen gas leaked from a vent line on space shuttle Endeavour 's external fuel tank Wednesday and threatened to push the launch into July.
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BB644 months, 3 weeks ago
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Are we finally going to admit the Shuttle program has been a huge waste of resources and human lives? It was a product of the recycling lefties from the 70's. It cost more to keep old birds like that up than building new rocket launched units. Hard we used a booster system like the Saturn V, the entire space station could have been launched in one or two runs instead of the dozen shuttle runs. Well, this was just another example of the Carter thinking of the free spending 70's.
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beavith14 months, 3 weeks ago
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actually it was Nixon that gave up on the space program and promoted a less useful shuttle.
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it was sold on the idea that cost/lb to orbit would be cut by an order of magnitude.
it didn't quite work that way... bureaucracy, like a gas, tends to fill the volume allowed.-
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BB644 months, 3 weeks ago
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Nixon did kill the Saturn program but the shuttle got the biggest boost from Carter. He liked the idea of reusing a space craft and it fit into his whole presidency. Cut back, reduce, reuse. It didn't work on our economy and it really didn't work for the shuttle program. He never took into account the actual costs associated nor the dangers as the fleet aged. It's been one of the most costly least productive space projects we've ever done. I know there are a lot of good people who put their lives into the program but had we used simpler large boosters, the space station would already be in place along with Hubble's replacement.
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