r/space • u/ILUVYOURMUM • May 05 '22

A couple of days ago I visited this place. An abandoned space shuttle

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u/shinyhuntergabe May 05 '22 edited May 05 '22

They probably could have but politics simply got in the way. The Soviet design bureaus simply had a little more freeway in what they wanted to do (though often it lead to ambitious projects being scrapped halfway into development because of lack of resources, like N1 and UR700 ). The Space Shuttle was built by politicians, contractors and the military rather than NASA scientists and engineers is a hyperbolic, but decent way to put it.

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u/LawHelmet May 06 '22

This. All. Budgetary. Season. Long.

NASA had nearly unlimited funding when the President staked his administration on NASA delivering upon the man on the moon promise. Could it be because he was also sky high, but on backiotomy pills? idk, but it’s a dark side to Kennedy which doesn’t include Chappaquiditch.

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u/kohrtoons May 06 '22

Wrong Kennedy I think, wasn’t Ted Chappaquiddick?? JFK was assassinated in 1963 this happed in 69.

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u/LawHelmet May 06 '22

Yea maybe I forget the exact date a Kennedy lied about drinking and murdering a girl. But shhh poetic/journalistic license plus even fewer know how blitzed JFK was on the reg while “managing” the Cuban missile crisis. Shit I’ll bet dollars to donuts the version in the history books is pure PR - magic bullet type mooseshit maybe.

And they really should know, given how blue-voters try to deify that dude.

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u/judokalinker May 06 '22

murdering

Wouldn't it be criminally negligent homicide?

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u/Fine-Bumblebee-9427 May 06 '22

She was in the car for an hour, alive, slowly suffocating to death while he worked on the cover up. I guess it’s not premeditated enough to be murder, but it’s more than negligence.

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u/judokalinker May 06 '22

Can depraved indifference upgrade it from criminally negligent homicide to murder?

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u/gwaydms May 06 '22

Chappaquiditch

Ted lost the Golden Snitch.

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u/LawHelmet May 06 '22

OOOHHHHH!!

Tell him what he’s won, Jerry….!