Comments on: Crews exchange greetings after shuttle docks successfully – CNN.com http://www.blackrimglasses.com/2007/06/10/crews-exchange-greetings-after-shuttle-docks-successfully-cnncom/ Music + Technology + Random Nonsense from the Music Industry by Ethan Kaplan, VP Product, Live Nation Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:55:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Geof F. Morris http://www.blackrimglasses.com/2007/06/10/crews-exchange-greetings-after-shuttle-docks-successfully-cnncom/comment-page-1/#comment-187758 Geof F. Morris Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:13:41 +0000 http://blackrimglasses.com/archives/2007/06/10/crews-exchange-greetings-after-shuttle-docks-successfully-cnncom/#comment-187758 Ethan: That's why Shuttle end-of-life will happen early next decade [I don't believe the 2010 deadline, knowing the ISS Assembly Sequence and directly working in the logistics and maintenance flow], and also why we're quickly working on the ARES I program to replace Shuttle. We would stop flying it today and put all monies into ARES, but there's no other vehicle capable of carrying the components left to install on the International Space Station. Once again, Von Braun was right---you don't expose your heat shield during flight transition. :) Ethan: That’s why Shuttle end-of-life will happen early next decade [I don't believe the 2010 deadline, knowing the ISS Assembly Sequence and directly working in the logistics and maintenance flow], and also why we’re quickly working on the ARES I program to replace Shuttle. We would stop flying it today and put all monies into ARES, but there’s no other vehicle capable of carrying the components left to install on the International Space Station.

Once again, Von Braun was right—you don’t expose your heat shield during flight transition. :)

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