For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

accusing a Christian of adoring money above all else does not engage any history of ugly stereotypes. His April 1980 Washington Monthly article "Beam Me Out Of This Death Trap Scotty" accurately forecast many of the Shuttle's issues including an overambitious launch schedule and the consequent higher-than-expected marginal cost per flight; the risks of depending on the Shuttle for all payloads civilian and military; the lack of a survivable abort scenario if a Solid Rocket Booster were to fail; and the fragility of the Shuttle's thermal protection system.

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