10-14-2004, 06:23 PM
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Tone.
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Originally Posted by OzOz
"the shuttle was never meant to be a production vehicle"
Actually, Shuttle *was* meant to be a production vehicle
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http://www.johnwyoung.com/main/experimental.htm
from that site:
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"The orbiter is not an operational vehicle and they need to stop treating it like one," the 72-year-old space veteran said during a visit to Georgia Tech, where he graduated in aerospace engineering in 1952. "This is still an experimental vehicle. STS-107 [Columbia's final flight] proved that pretty well."
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