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To: Bonefish who wrote (888383)	9/16/2015 4:05:02 PM
From: locogringo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575427

I was born and raised on Mars, in case you wanted to know anything factual, rather than this liberal hocus pocus.

To: Bonefish who wrote (888383)	9/16/2015 4:57:25 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1575427

The Shuttle was just the last push. After the first Moon landing, NASA was wound down. During the final missions, they noticed that the flight controllers, even ones in their 30s, were dropping dead from heart attacks. See, after every mission, some more people got RIFfed. So not only was there the stress of dealing with the details of the mission, they were facing the very real possibility they might be out of a job. Sky Lab was more of the same. The Shuttle program was originally a joint program with the military. Which is why it was so big. The military had in mind something in particular they wanted it to be able to carry and service. The first shuttles had windows that would go reflective if light above a certain intensity hit them. Like from a nuclear flash. The military also wanted it to have a minimum cross-range velocity. Which necessitated the tiles. It could have been designed to re-enter slower and use existing alloys, but it didn't meet military needs. The point being, NASA was pretty much mothballed during the 1970s. Most of the stuff in the pipeline was allowed to complete, but as they did, more and more of NASA was shut down. I lived in the area and watched it happen.