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Interesting juxtaposition of spaceflight-related stories here. Private enterprise vs. government bureaucracy?

NASA to Ground Shuttle Program Over Foam Debris

More trouble with the fuel tank foam has caused the grounding of the shuttle fleet (again), pending some resolution of the problem. They KNOW how to fix it...but...when they changed the foam due to new environmental requirements, they started having trouble with it. 'nuff said. In this decadant age bureaucracy trumps good engineering every time.

Richard Branson and Burt Rutan Form Spacecraft Building Company

British entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson, has teamed up with aerospace designer, Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites to form a new aerospace production company. The new firm will build a fleet of commercial suborbital spaceships and launch aircraft. Called The Spaceship Company, the new entity will manufacture launch aircraft, various spacecraft and support equipment and market those products to spaceliner operators. Clients include launch customer, Virgin Galactic?formed by Branson to handle space tourist flights.

These guys will do it themselves, do it right, and make money at the same time!

If NASA is to maintain any credibility, they had better get off their keisters and get going on building something a bit more state-of-the-art than the 50-year old shuttle technology.

It is a sign of how strong a nominee John Roberts is that his membership or non-membership in the Federalist society should have become an issue. The New York Times puts it this way:Last week, the White House denied that...

Police Nab Suspect in Botched Blasts

Police stormed a brown-brick duplex Wednesday and used a stun gun to arrest a Somali suspected of being one of four men behind botched attacks in London - a breakthrough that could yield the inside story on terror bombings that set the British capital on edge.

HOO-RAH!

George McGovern has some things today in the Star Tribune today about his life as a WWII pilot. McGovern may be hopelessly wrong politically, but he served his nation well....

In my previous note on Professor Emeritus Richard Crouter's piece in today's Star Trib, I pointed out the morally shocking premise of his argument: that the insurgents blowing up thousands of their fellow countrymen, including children, were only doing what...

Mr. Clean Cut Kid directs us to this Quinnipiac University survey showing that by a 61-31 margin Americans support upholding Roe v. Wade. I guess Chad isn't reading this site too closely, because just a few days ago I anticipated...

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