Leo a través de la página de Pedro Jorge Romero este genial artículo: A Rocket To Nowhere sobre la inutilidad del programa Space Shuttle de la Nasa. Desde los errores en su diseño, hasta los errores en las justificaciones para la continuación de su existencia. Destaco dos párrafos que me han encantado:
The Soviet Shuttle, the Buran (snowstorm) was an aerodynamic clone of the American orbiter, but incorporated many original features that had been considered and rejected for the American program, such as all-liquid rocket boosters, jet engines, ejection seats and an unmanned flight capability. You know you’re in trouble when the Russians are adding safety features to your design
The NASA obsession with elementary and middle school participation in space flight is curious, and demonstrates how low a status actual in-flight science has compared with orbital public relations. You are not likely to hear of CERN physicists colliding tin atoms sent to them by a primary school in Toulouse, or the Hubble space being turned around to point at waving middle schoolers on a playground in Texas, yet even the minimal two-man ISS crew – one short of the stated minimum needed to run the station – regularly takes time to talk to schoolchildren.
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