[amsat-bb] The Columbia Syndrome...

[T5z4@xxxxxxx]

Just curious... but I am beginning to wonder to what likelihood will AMSAT and those here who will read this that have, or are currently supporting it's projects, going to pull together and get back on its feet with an effort to pick up the pieces and recover from our ill fated AO-40 satellite project.  Or...and I really hope I'm wrong here, but has this same community that should be fully familiar by now with the inherent risks...are they too, just as easily snake bit and averse to failure as our American pop culture has been 
to some recent failures in the manned and unmanned exploration of space.  Though I don't even own an AO-40 class station but will one day soon,  Projects of that scale and beyond are what I want to put my money and efforts to supporting and really not much less.  I too am disappointed at the loss of AO-40 but what an awesome effort and learning curve it has been for so many who were witness to and a part of it.  My hats off to all and to a hand full that even put me to work with a front row seat at times, side by side with these pros in their field.  

OK... so, ECHO seems to be off to a good start.  Greeaat...but are we going to let AO-40 be our short-changed Apollo program.  I sure hope nobody has circular filed the Phase-3D plans yet ;)  And this of course is all my own opinion and I know my words will be worth more to some than others.  In short, my hope is that what I saw first hand, I can again be a part of, where people rally around a great project of similar or grander scale and will want to commit to a repeatable process in the construction of a very capable system instead of a sky full of single channel noise.

73 
Steve
K5PK
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