From: sylvia@email.invalid   
      
   On 14/11/2022 4:23 pm, JF Mezei wrote:   
      
   > They had a working vehicle with known eprformance and known   
   > components/engines, it sees to me it should have been faster and cheaper   
   > to upgrade it compared to building that SLS boondgle to nowhere.  And as   
   > shuttles got upgraded (or new one built,) they could have been tested to   
   > ISS to continue to service it).   
      
   I think what they'd realised about the shuttle was that it was hideously   
   dangerous, and an absolute money pit. After Columbia had again shown   
   that NASA management have no understanding of risk, I'm surprised anyone   
   was willing to fly in it.   
      
   As for the SLS, it might fly, but then so might pigs. I'm not holding my   
   breath.   
      
   Sylvia.   
      
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