Re: NASA gets it all wrong *again*

Drexl Spivey <honibear@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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On May 17, 12:16 pm, sar3 <x...@xxx> wrote:
Drexl Spivey <honib...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
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On May 16, 10:59 am, sar3 <x...@xxx> wrote:
"Before this problem, ASTRO had already experienced some tense
moments in its mission. Shortly after its launch, it had problems
pointing in the right direction because some of its hardware was
accidentally installed upside down..."

http://tinyurl.com/3yf8zf

There seems to be a cultural/management problem at NASA. They make
serious mistakes far too often.

Budget cuts will do it every time.

The marriage of ruthless capitalism and the exploration of the solar
system for scientific purposes may be an impossible match.

It is what it is.

NASA has also had many successes recently especially with the Mars
missions that seem to take the bulk of the funds. The other projects
are taking a hit. You have to keep in mind that they are pushing new
boundries too, and errors will occur

"Failure to convert English measures to metric values was the root cause
of the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter, a spacecraft that smashed into
the planet instead of reaching a safe orbit, a NASA investigation
concluded Wednesday..."

http://www4.cnn.com/TECH/space/9911/10/orbiter.03/

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Perhaps you should just get the Olympic Airways to do NASA's job? ;-)
Can you imagine if a plane crash turned out to be caused by somebody
installing a piece of hardware upside-down or because one software module
was using metres and another was using yards? Airlines learned long ago
how to avoid such mistakes.


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