posted 11-06-2005 07:22 PM               

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Were the shuttle and ISS mistakes?
by Eric R. Hedman
Monday, October 31, 2005

Michael Griffin made news a few weeks ago when in an interview with USA Today he was quoted as calling the shuttle and the ISS mistakes. The clarifications that followed from Michael Griffin and NASA definitely did not get the same attention in the media. Regardless of whether or not Michael Griffin was correctly quoted still begs the question, “Were the shuttle and the ISS mistakes?” I have to admit that, when the architecture for returning to the Moon was unveiled, the thought that the last three decades of human spaceflight were a visionless mistake crossed my mind. The phrase “Apollo on steroids” just emphasized the thought that Apollo could have been put on steroids in the 70s and 80s.

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