Another great source of disinformation...
Wow. Just read the entire article. Talk about ignoring the facts on Ares I, Delta IV, and Atlas V. As you said, robertross -- "A great source of disinformation." I love the fact that you can't make a comment about that article. It's just there as fact. (insert sigh here)
Quote from: ChrisGebhardt on 06/24/2009 03:09 amWow. Just read the entire article. Talk about ignoring the facts on Ares I, Delta IV, and Atlas V. As you said, robertross -- "A great source of disinformation." I love the fact that you can't make a comment about that article. It's just there as fact. (insert sigh here)To reply go to the end of the story, under discuss story
What worries this spaceflight vet is that history might be repeating itself. My nightmares are rerunning the Apollo 1 fire.The tragedy set America’s space program back for more than a year — time for the White House and Apollo contractor North American Aviation to open their eyes. They put O’Malley in charge, and the first thing he did was run off the retired colonels and generals and political payoff hires and replaced them with Mercury and Gemini veterans. In 18 months, three astronauts orbited the moon aboard Apollo 8.
I have to admit, the article seems like alternate history, basically a science fiction story. Nothing that I remember from the time (I was a teenager) or have read since suggests Kennedy was a space visionary of any sort. If anything, he was the opposite, and only cared about finding some way the US could outdo the Soviets and show the world what we could do.
But using Buzz Aldrin to refute him is no better. Buzz has now become a parody of himself. He's the William Shatner of astronauts . . .
Thanks for the update. Buzz is quirky