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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Techno-welfare
Message-ID: <15030@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 21 Dec 89 18:31:33 GMT
References: <8912181657.AA01075@aldrin.cray.com> <1989Dec20.150503.27019@cs.rochester.edu> <SHAFER.89Dec21091523@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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Mary Shafer points out that NACA/NASA always has, and still does, excel
at real honest-to-God aeronautical research like winglets, fly by wire,
rain effects etc.

Hurrah!  Anyone can see this is NASA doing what it does best.

Now where does space fit in.  NASA is currently spending more time
trying to do the end users' jobs FOR them, than researching how they
can do it better themselves.

Let NASA spend its time researching how to build better spacecraft,
while science, industry and the military use the research results
thus obtained to build and use the craft they need.

Then we will get our money's worth.
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