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Originally Posted by looneybin
How many people use GPS?
how about all those cool looking carbon fiber dash panels?
Nitrogen in your tires?
ALL because of the space program
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WRONG. The Navstar GPS constallation is a
military program.
Carbon fiber was developed for high performance
military aircraft.
Who uses nitrogen in their tires? I don't. Is that something you're seriously pushing as justification for the space program?
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Originally Posted by RWebb
USAF uses it all the time - joint pgm
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The Space shuttle is NOT a USAF program, nor is it a joint program. The "USAF uses it all the time", but it's cheaper- far cheaper- to blast something into space on a conventional rocket.
The Space shuttle is one of the biggest white elephants in the history of technological development. It is almost as if someone said "Let's design the most inefficient space vessel imaginable" and ran with the idea to 'fruition'.