Wednesday, December 15, 2004
I smell another medal of freedom!
Posted by:
Hammer / 9:39 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, your next medal of freedom
winner:
The first test in nearly two years of a multibillion-dollar U.S. anti-missile shield failed on Wednesday when the interceptor missile shut down as it prepared to launch in the central Pacific, the Pentagon said.
In 2002, President Bush pledged to have initial elements of the program up and running by the end of this year while testing and development continued.
"This is a serious setback for a program that had not attempted a flight intercept test for two years," Philip Coyle, the Pentagon's chief weapons tester under late President Ronald Reagan, said in an e-mail exchange.
From
Reuters.