Originally Posted by
TURIN
Who or what is NAA?
Some people mistakenly call it NASA, without realizing the severe damage to the advancement of human space travel it's caused. It's a combination of the hubris of the moon landing and the promotional childhood dreams of Golly Gee (chemical) rockets. We need to be thinking about space travel in a whole new way. I used to shred books and papers extolling the Space Shuttle during its development. Even as a little child I realized that a LEO glider was useless. Then to compound with how fragile the thing was. The only reason I didn't kick the one at the Udvar-Hazy I because I felt sorry for the staff that would have a to clean up a pile of ceramic bricks -might be worse than legos.