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From: roberts@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Tim Roberts)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: NASA: A Can-Do Agency Becomes A Can't Do Bureaucracy
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Date: 22 Jul 90 20:31:00 GMT
References: <8824@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Reply-To: roberts@larry.sal.wisc.edu.UUCP (Tim Roberts)
Organization: Space Astronomy Lab, Madison, WI
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In article <8824@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> gwalsh@kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Gregg Easterbrook) writes:
>
>"NASA:  What Goes Up -- A Can-Do Agency Becomes A Can't Do Bureaucracy"
>(by Gregg Easterbrook - contributing editor to Newsweek and the Atlantic)
>
>The X-15
>program was put together quickly, didn't cost much and never had an accident. 

I suppose the men that were killed then died on purpose. This one statement
displays profound ignorance. I aggree with Easterbrook's ideas but wonder
if he wouldn't make a better football coach by claiming twenty years from
now that he had "never lost a game until this year."  That makes _anyone_
look like an idiot compared to their records.  I don't use false examples
to back my claims.  Appearently Newsweek and the Atlantic do.