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From: beres@cadnetix.COM (Tim Beres)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: NASA ASRM production and testing sites announced (Forwarded)
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Date: 27 Jul 88 14:55:06 GMT
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In article yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) writes:
>
>NASA ASRM PRODUCTION AND TESTING SITES ANNOUNCED
>
>     NASA today announced selection of the government sites for 
>the production and testing facilities for the agency's planned 
>Space Shuttle Advanced Solid Rocket Motor (ASRM).  The Tennessee 
>Valley Authority property known as Yellow Creek, in northeastern 
>Mississippi has been selected for the location of the facility 
>for production of the ASRM, while NASA's Stennis Space Center 
>near Bay St. Louis, Miss., has been selected for testing of the 
>motor.
>

How many NASA facilities are there - now, mothballed and planned?
I am curious to know if there is *perhaps* a proliferation of centers,
plants, labs, authorities and what not.  Could this be due to pork-barrel
politics?  Would centralizing some of the facilities make sense from
an administrative and/or technical aspect?  Congress likes to make lots
of noise about how much ~space~ costs, but do they get totally apoplectic
when cutting fat from their district?  

			Tim
..words to memorize  words hypnotize  words make my mouth exercise  words all
fail the magic prize... -- VF
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