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To: D. Long who wrote (6075)	8/27/2003 5:56:38 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793639

George III got off lucky sitting an ocean away from the Boston Tea Party. Davis faces some pissed off Italian grandmothers armed with ballots and Bocce balls at 90 miles. I'm ducking!

To: D. Long who wrote (6075)	8/27/2003 7:54:37 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793639

Foam Was to Blame, Says Shuttle Study - LA Times Yep, and chapter three of the report mentions that the foam was reformulated to make the environmentalists happy. We will never know for sure if that weakened it to the point that it caused the accident. But I figure, "The Liberals did it again!" I think we ought to quit having the Government do manned space flights, and the "Times" analysis ends up with the same comment. ... Now, the only way to protect NASA may be to remake it and give it a clear mission beyond running the world's most sophisticated freight train to low-earth orbit. And that will touch off the next round of an old debate, about whether keeping humans in space to conduct experimentation is worth the risks. Many scientists believe it is. Many politicians love the image, and are willing to vote for manned space programs, not robotic ones. Bruce Murray, professor of geophysics at the California Institute of Technology and a former director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said that was another priority that might have to change. "When push comes to shove, they recommend to continue flying the shuttle," Professor Murray said. "They end up buying the NASA program, not exposing an analysis of alternatives to it." "The question they don't ask," Professor Murray said, is, "does it make sense to continue?" nytimes.com