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From: greg@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Greg Retzlaff)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle Status for 07/25/90 (Forwarded)
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Date: 26 Jul 90 08:27:02 GMT
References: <54748@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
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In article <54748@ames.arc.nasa.gov> yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) writes:
>       ...similar to the one previously detected during earlier tests.
>          Engineers will be digesting the data gathered during today's test
>          and presenting the information to program management.
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I think we explicitly see here the NASA problem.  I hope the
managers are engineers, but suspect they are not.  If they let
the engineers have a free hand, I suspect the fix would go better.
Better yet, more engineers and fewer managers
about 20 years ago and there likely would not be a problem at all.
-- 
Greg Retzlaff, NIKHEF-K
Netherlands Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics
The most common things in the universe  | We are all in the gutter,
are hydrogen and stupidity.             | but some of us look at the stars.