Mitchell Holman <noemail@att.net> wrote in
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> Savageduck <savageduck1@{removespam}me.com> wrote in
> news:1402572328444354869.076237savageduck1-{removespam}me.com@news.panic.
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>> Mitchell Holman <noemail@att.net> wrote:
>>> PVK <pv.kirkland@gmail.com> wrote in
>>> news:RaednbQr995DSVbJnZ2dnUVZ8uSdnZ2d@giganews.com:
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>>>> 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.
>>
>>
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> 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".
>
*Not* Glenn...
I'm too lazy to research it at the moment - but t'was not Glenn.
Glenn was too much of a hairshirt to say that.
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