Re: Ada Article in "COTS Journal"

["John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net>]

Actually, no, it isn't.

Recall that John Glenn rode an Atlas booster into space in 1962, and it was
an operational ICBM, that had been impressed into service for manned
spaceflight at the time.  That's AT LEAST 41 years of operational service,
not counting how long it was an ICBM first.  The Saturn I was the first
booster designed from the ground up for manned flight to orbit.  (I believe
Redstone was purpose-designed for the manned suborbital flights.)

"Marin David Condic" <nobody@noplace.com> wrote in message
news:3F04155B.50004@noplace.com...
> Still, I think that expecting 100 years of life out of a rocket program
> is expecting a bit much. I think Hyman was trying to observe that the
> writer had forgotten that we are already in "the next century" that he
> was thinking of. ;-)