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Mitchell Holman <noemail@att.net> wrote:
> PVK <pv.kirkland@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:RaednbQr995DSVbJnZ2dnUVZ8uSdnZ2d@giganews.com:
>
>> Bearing in mind what was riding on those things, both literally and
>> figuratively, the quality control and scrutiny must have been laborious.
>> It's not as if they could take them for a test flight and correct any
>> bugs afterwards.
>>
>> Thanks for the pics, Mitch
>>
>> Regards
>> Paul
>> Cambridge U.K.
>>
>
>
>     Considering the disasterous first US
> attempts at putting a satellite in orbit
> the later launch vehicles (Redstone, Atlas,
> Saturn and now Delta) have worked amazingly
> well.

I remember the old joke concerning the Vanguard: they are going to rename
it "Civil Service" because they can't fire it, and they can't get it to
work.


--
Savageduck

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