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From: pstinson@pbs.org
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: NASA: A Can-Do Agency Becomes A Can't Do Bureaucracy
Message-ID: <9801.26bd50a5@pbs.org>
Date: 6 Aug 90 15:12:37 GMT
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In article <SHAFER.90Jul23102049@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov>, shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) writes:
> In article <8824@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> gwalsh@kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Gerald J. Walsh) writes:
> 
>>"NASA:  What Goes Up -- A Can-Do Agency Becomes A Can't Do Bureaucracy"
> 
>>(from the Los Angeles Times Opinion Section - Sunday July 22, 1990)

>> The X-15
>>program was put together quickly, didn't cost much and never had an accident. 
> 
> Would you care to tell this to Mike Adams' widow?
> 
For anyone who hasn't heard about it, the fatal crash happened in 1967 near the
end of the program and involved X-15 No.3, the one that set the altitude record
a few years before.