From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,510f0fa908290e28 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-03 08:05:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!lnsnews.lns.cornell.edu!news.litech.org!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.airnews.net!cabal12.airnews.net!usenet From: "John R. Strohm" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Article in "COTS Journal" Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 09:50:26 -0500 Organization: Airnews.net! at Internet America Message-ID: References: <254c16a.0306130525.580489f2@posting.google.com> <254c16a.0307020654.5960f0b6@posting.google.com> <1057162405.558886@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F04155B.50004@noplace.com> Abuse-Reports-To: abuse at airmail.net to report improper postings NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library1-aux.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Time: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 10:03:05 -0500 (CDT) NNTP-Posting-Host: !Yd%.1k-XDe5`?C (Encoded at Airnews!) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40027 Date: 2003-07-03T09:50:26-05:00 List-Id: 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" 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. ;-)