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From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Board appointed to investigate reasons for damaged shuttle thruster (Forwarded)
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Date: 31 Jul 90 19:02:53 GMT
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In article <1101@ke4zv.UUCP>, gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
> In article <54666@ames.arc.nasa.gov> yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) writes:

> At my job, my boss and
> I were installing a delicate and expensive part one night and dropped
> it.

When you dropped this part, was it covered by national news media?
Are you hounded by shareholders who want to know where every penny goes?

There's a lot wrong with NASA, but things didn't get that way in a
vacuum (so to speak...).