Mitchell Holman <noemail@att.net> wrote in
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> 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:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>
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>
> Coulda been Shepard.
>
Ahhh, yes. My hero. NOT a "pilot" - an AVIATOR!
He's my hero for sticking with it so long - for the Moon!
"It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize
that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder
on a government contract." - Alan Shepard
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