Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!sdcc6!beowulf!rose From: rose@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Dan Rose) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: New (!?!?!?!) Shuttle Computers Message-ID: Date: 11 Mar 91 21:05:27 GMT References: <1991Mar7.142311.10412@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> <6963@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: news@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Lines: 14 dil@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Perry G Ramsey) writes: >... The state of the Shuttle GPC >indicates pretty clearly that the current >NASA (at least the manned space side) is scared to death of anything new. >That, though, is the ultimate state of any hidebound bureaucracy: it's >better not to make a mistake than not to accomplish anything. Hmm, does NASA think Apollo 11 would have made it to the moon if it had been carrying those WWII-era differential analyzers used to compute ballistic trajectories? -- Dan Rose drose@ucsd.edu