Right! And my fellow Rockwell employees did a great job for
their time - remember slide rules and T squares?

But why continue with a forty year old vehicles that are now
falling out of the sky and killing people, especially with
NASA insisting on flying with ice cycles hanging off the
shuttle, leaking booster gas seals, and fuel tanks shedding
insulation?

We could certainly do it much cheaper, safer, and better
today, right?

WDA

end

"Keith Willshaw" wrote
in message ...

"W. D. Allen Sr." wrote in message
t...
One more Shuttle disaster and Congress will put us out
of
the manned space flight business permanently. But NASA
will
never give up the Shuttle cash cow it has been riding
for
almost half a century for a safer, better industry
designed
system.

WDA

end

The shuttle was designed by the aerospace industry, North
American Rockwell
was the prime contractor.

Rockwell Rocketdyne Division designed and developed the
main engines.

Rockwell Space Transportation Systems selected to designed
and developed
the orbiter.

Martin Marietta got the external tank contract and Morton
Thiikol got
the contract for solid rocket boosters.

Keith