NASA's stock shuttle

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NASA's stock shuttle (http://arioch.unomaha.edu/~jclark/Shuttle_.jpg)

[A-1 (imported)]

Good idea!

A little advertizing could offset the cost to NASA for keeping our astronauts safe...

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[Patient (imported)]

. . . for keeping our astronauts safe...Reading Richard Feynman's report on the Challenger disaster may persuade you that our astronauts have no hope of being safe until the polititians in NASA management are replaced by engineers. I don't mean replaced by people who merely have engineering degrees, I mean by people who still embrace the culture of engineering despite having been "promoted" to management. The culture of management is the culture of politics is the culture of mendacity. You can fool the electorate but you can't fool Mother Nature.

Feynman's estimate of the shuttle reliability, published in 1986, was about 0.02 while NASA management was claiming 0.000001. By July 2006 there had been two fatal failures in 127 flights. Whom would you believe? Do you still think Christa McAuliffe got a fair shake?

See ISBN 0-393-32092-8 at your local library or by inter-library loan.

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[A-1 (imported)]

My point is that managers are cheap and stupid.

Engineers are smart and expensive.

There would be more money needed to do what you ask...

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