From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 3 21:28:38 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3654837B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 21:28:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from wolfbert.skynet.be (wolfbert.skynet.be [195.238.3.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF37743F75 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 21:28:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from picard.skynet.be (picard.skynet.be [195.238.3.88]) by wolfbert.skynet.be (8.12.7/8.12.7/Skynet-OUT-FALLBACK-2.22) with ESMTP id h140mCZp010301 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 01:48:12 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from ) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (ip-26.shub-internet.org [194.78.144.26] (may be forged)) by picard.skynet.be (8.12.7/8.12.7/Skynet-OUT-2.21) with ESMTP id h140kLHp015791; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 01:46:28 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3E3EB480.87EE0356@mindspring.com> References: <3E3EB480.87EE0356@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 00:50:42 +0100 To: Terry Lambert From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: oh my god the nasa shuttle blewup Cc: Larry Sica , "f.johan.beisser" , Brad Knowles , John Martinez , barbish@a1poweruser.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 10:27 AM -0800 2003/02/03, Terry Lambert wrote: > This is unlikely to remain true in the future. With this most > recent loss, the U.S. has lost 25% of it's heavy lift capability, > and if you include the Challenger, it has lost 40% of the designed > total heavy lift capability. Columbia wasn't doing any heavy life for the ISS. As the oldest shuttle in the fleet, it couldn't carry enough cargo to do the job. Instead, it was taking on the other missions that it could do and freeing up the other vehicles to do more heavy lift. That's still a loss in heavy lift capacity (due to increased competition), but a less direct one. -- Brad Knowles, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message