[amsat-bb] Re: Don't Fly SuitSat2 to ISS (rebuttal)

[Daniel Schultz]

>As for AO-40.  It failed for the same reason that suitsat 1 did, and for the
>same reason that a lot of people who build their own airplane kill
themselves
>every year trying to "test fly it"....the project got to big for the
>organization that was building it...ie their technical competence was
>insufficient for the task at hand.

Spaceflight is dangerous business, unforgiving of the smallest human error.
Results are never guaranteed. If we can't take a bloody nose without crying
about it then we don't belong in this business. 

Dan Schultz N8FGV