"We have addressed everything we know on the shuttle that can go wrong that we have the technology to fix," Griffin said. "Some things simply are inherent to the design of the bird and cannot be made better without going and getting a new generation of spacecraft."
That's NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and I sure hope he knows what he's talking about. This will hopefully be the last shuttle flight ever attempted. If NASA dosen't firmly and publicily commit itself to building the next generation of spacecraft to replace the shuttle fleet, regardless of how this flight goes, manned space exploration in the US will have suffered a horendoues setback. The senior management culture at NASA has become staffed with people who lack vision and ingenuiety in some terribly deficient fashion. It's time to abandon the shuttle and move into the next great era of manned space flight, it's not 1985 anymore people!
The launch happens at 10:39 EST today, pray there's no violent explosion. Click here to watch NASA TV! Hmm.. I wonder if any bookies are giving a line on a potential shuttle disaster?
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