Re: FIRE the NASA managers

From: Andrew Swallow (am.swallow@eatspam.btinternet.com)
Date: 02/07/03 

From: "Andrew Swallow" <am.swallow@eatspam.btinternet.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 15:28:36 +0000 (UTC)

"Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net> wrote in message
news:3E43773D.4010703@null.net...
> Andrew Swallow wrote:
> > There are alternatives. Build some more Saturn 5 rockets. The
> > Gemini missions used Titan missiles. The current ballistic
> > missiles could be converted into rescue rockets.
>
> Not in the necessary time frame, they couldn't.
> Also, I doubt that we still have the tooling for any
> of those old manned spacecraft or their boosters.
> (It would take a lot of them to bring back one
> shuttleload of astronauts anyway!)
>

Lets put it this way, NASA management have had
20 years.

Andrew Swallow

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