Jess Lurkin <Good@Guy.com> wrote in news:majh1l313t5@news4.newsguy.com:
> Mitchell Holman <noemail@att.net> wrote in
> news:XnsA4335D4B2DDFEnoemailattnet@216.166.97.131:
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>> Savageduck <savageduck1@{removespam}me.com> wrote in
>> news:1402572328444354869.076237savageduck1-{removespam}me.com@news.pan
>> ic. com:
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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.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
Coulda been Shepard.
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