John Husvar wrote:
In article ,
Bruce L. Bergman wrote:

You don't want to make a Lawn Dart or a Daisy Cutter out of a
spacecraft if there are people aboard. That kind of wild ride tends
to be immediately deleterious to life and health.

(Ain't that an understatement...)

NASA has never made a Lawn Dart or a Daisy Cutter out of a spacecraft.
NASA has, however, shown very bad stringing when shotgunning a couple of
shuttles and egregious CYA the like of which has never been heard on any
trap range when explaining them both.

Go back and look at the tests done using the Atlas rockets... More than
a few went TU just off the pad, when they made it off the pad at all....

I'll say one thing for ANY of the crews, it takes MAJOR LEAGUE guts to
willingly strap your ass to the top of a multi billion dollar machine
that was built out of parts procured through the lowest bidder program...
--
Steve W.