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October 19, 2007

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DensityDuck

Oh, for God's sake. Yet another article moaning about NASA focusing on the Space Shuttle.

People, let's learn some history, here. NASA didn't want the Shuttle. They didn't need the Shuttle. They didn't have any use for the Shuttle. But for NASA to exist as an organization, they needed government money; and Congress had lost interest in space about thirty seconds after we beat those Russkies to the Moon. NASA had to turn to the military, and the military had its own priorities; the only service that had any interest in space was the Air Force, and they only thing they cared about was spy satellites. So we got a Space Shuttle that was a perfect vehicle for launching spy satellites, and it was damn near useless for anything else. But it would have been a terrible provocation to have the Air Force develop its own satellite launcher; so everyone pretended that it was a NASA vehicle, and painted giant NASA signs on the side of it, and just sort of didn't talk about what it was really _for_.

NASA would have preferred to keep going with Skylab and other such missions, but they were dependent on the Air Force for money, and the Air Force didn't care about any of that silly science shite. We're DEFENDING THE FREE WORLD, here, egghead, so you just sit back down and maybe if we're feeling magnanimous we'll give you the ICD for the cargo bay so you can make a science-instrument pallet that's exactly the same size as a spy satellite.

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