I never thought after we left the Moon when I was a kid, that that was
going to be the last time in my lifetime. I hope and Pray that the previous
sentence won't be true.
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 10:25 PM, [Traveller_TNE] <
> wrote:
>
>
> That really disappointed me that we couldn't get Shuttle up in time to
> save Skylab. They used to have pieces of Skylab (from the Australian
> debris field) in Lucite as paperweights for sale at the National Air &
> Space museum, really pretty good sized chunks, like the size of your
> thumbnail for $75.00. I didn't have enough money the one time, and when I
> had it a couple weeks later they were all gone.
>
> Most days I don't really believe we had a space program from 1981 to 2011.
> That thing was such a dog, almost exclusively parasite weight, and had so
> many cut corners to be "cheap" that it ended up costing huge ransoms just
> to keep it hobbling along. That's why NASA hacks had to make up so much
> nonsense about how many gajillion miles they fell around the Earth, they
> knew what an embarrassment it was. Its finest hour was when John Young
> spoke about it from the Moon. The Traveller timeline doesn't provide me a
> lot of comfort, but I do have hopes for Elon Musk.
>
> > Now , now...on the Traveller timeline, the manned portion of the US Space
> > Program wasn't essentially shutdown in the mid-70s (the space shuttle
> > actually gets built in time to service Skylab as planned for example) and
> > the EU didn't get all wrapped up in bailing out semi-socialist government
> > that made too many spending promises to their people.
>
>
>
--
Evyn
going to be the last time in my lifetime. I hope and Pray that the previous
sentence won't be true.
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 10:25 PM, [Traveller_TNE] <
> wrote:
>
>
> That really disappointed me that we couldn't get Shuttle up in time to
> save Skylab. They used to have pieces of Skylab (from the Australian
> debris field) in Lucite as paperweights for sale at the National Air &
> Space museum, really pretty good sized chunks, like the size of your
> thumbnail for $75.00. I didn't have enough money the one time, and when I
> had it a couple weeks later they were all gone.
>
> Most days I don't really believe we had a space program from 1981 to 2011.
> That thing was such a dog, almost exclusively parasite weight, and had so
> many cut corners to be "cheap" that it ended up costing huge ransoms just
> to keep it hobbling along. That's why NASA hacks had to make up so much
> nonsense about how many gajillion miles they fell around the Earth, they
> knew what an embarrassment it was. Its finest hour was when John Young
> spoke about it from the Moon. The Traveller timeline doesn't provide me a
> lot of comfort, but I do have hopes for Elon Musk.
>
> > Now , now...on the Traveller timeline, the manned portion of the US Space
> > Program wasn't essentially shutdown in the mid-70s (the space shuttle
> > actually gets built in time to service Skylab as planned for example) and
> > the EU didn't get all wrapped up in bailing out semi-socialist government
> > that made too many spending promises to their people.
>
>
>
--
Evyn