Non-Civilian Shuttle
In March 2005 the NBC series "West Wing" introduced a sub-plot in which the International Space Station starts to "lose oxygen" threatening the crew, and there is no apparent means of rescue. Someone starts muttering about the "non civilian shuttle" and we are eventually treated to a surprisingly sophisticated [given the oxygen goof} of FALCON. The Secretary of Defense doesn't want this covert program used, because the Russian on the ISS would see the big board, and the President has to think it over. POTUS says, "Wernher von Braun's autobiography was titled, 'I Aim for the Stars'; Mort Sahl joked he should have added, 'only sometimes I hit London'."
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