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Savageduck <savageduck1@{removespam}me.com> wrote in
news:1402572328444354869.076237savageduck1-{removespam}me.com@news.panic.
com:
> 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.
>
>
As John Glenn said when he was asked his thoughts
awaiting blast off "I am sitting on top of millions
of dollars worth of hardware all built by the lowest
bidder".
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