On Aug 23, 3:46*pm, Alan Erskine wrote:
On 23/08/2010 11:49 PM, David Spain wrote:





wrote:
They are now pressure testing orion, just wasting more money on a
capsule idea that probably wouldnt even be rembered, other than as
another example of government waste........

so why havent they buried the dead horse? its rotting and begining to
stink.........

Bob,

This has been explained here before. This is the way government
contracting works. Once money has been allocated and a project is
started it runs to completion of the terms of the contract. And some
contracts are actually written whereby it is often cheaper to let the
contract run to completion than cancel halfway through which causes all
sort of special termination/penalty clauses to kick in.

Space and government contracting works like a big long pipe. You can
shut the spigot off at the top of the pipe but it takes time before the
water stops running out the other end. Oh and by the way, at the spigot
valve there isn't one person in charge but a committee.

Dave

And, as J.F. Kennedy said "A committee is 12 men doing the work of one".- Hide quoted text -

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Well future contracts shouldnt allow featherbedding it just makes nasa
and government in general look like a bunch of drunken sailors on
leave.

Better to give a stop loss and pay the cancelation fees than look bad
to taxpayers.

the money would of been better spent adding some more shuttle flights
till whatever new is flying........