Try to read my posts more carefully, please. I did NOT say there should be no effort to prepare the vehicles for manned use at all. I stated that it was an over-rated thing, not that it should be eliminated entirely! There IS a difference, you know.<br /><br />The early vehicles were far worse than the current EELV's as far as accent trajectories were concerned (with the possible exception of the Saturn). <br /><br />They were all originally military. Either Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBM), or Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM). Note, the word ballistic used here, the military only needed the payload to survive at all (after all, if used the pay load was obviously going to end up as constituent atoms).<br /><br />Communication systems satellites are FAR more delicate than that! Bigelow, who unlike NASA, at the first manned failure would probably be shut down forever, is willing to take a chance on the EELV's but NASA that wants to go on to the moon and eventually Mars isn't?<br /><br />NOW, who has the "Right Stuff"?<br /><br />And the astronauts would LOVE me, as my first priority would be to see to it that far more flights were being made than are now made. And if you don't think that is just as important (if not far more important) to the astronauts than their comfort (and possible even their relative safety), then you know nothing at all about the history of the astronaut core!<br /><br />Please understand, I am not attacking you, but you first criticized my information without knowing the facts. And that does have a tendency to upset me just a little!<br /><br />However, I would still wish you a very Good Day!<br /><br />