nasa wises upsort of

NASA Wises Up...Sort Of

Posted by David at 9:35 AM

Twenty years after the Challenger explosion, NASA finally announced

the space shuttle will be scraped and they will undertake a new

generation of design.

The shuttle has never worked the way it was supposed to, and by that I

mean be cheaper to operate than a rocket and capasule. Thus, NASA will

design a new rocket and capsule.

It took two disasters, five space-worthy (relative term) shuttles and

a good four decades of development to finally admit what was

demonstrated with every launch; it's just not worth it.

But the most puzzling thing is the use of old capsule design for the

new phase of NASA space exploration in an age when the Ansari X-Prize

generated 26 teams, each with their own method of getting to space.

The most notable example being the winner of the Prize: SpaceShipOne.

Hell, the craft's hanging in the National Air and Space Museum. It's

not like NASA officials have to go far to see it. Perhaps they don't