For the record, I would like to clarify that the poster listed as "Bill
Clark", and who is having collegiate difficulties, is NOT, and should NOT,
be confused with myself, Bill Clarke (William Clarke with an "e" on Clarke),
a former Flight Dynamics Officer at Mission Control. Not that anyone
probably cares, but I don't want to be mistaken for this guy. I lurk and
watch my former co-workers and friends continue their efforts at JSC, new
jobs, and in this forum, and I want them to know without a doubt "it ain't
Clutch!"

Hello to all, especially Mike, Jorge, and Roger. Keep up the great work.

Watching RTF with great interest.........

Cheers,
Clutch


"Jorge R. Frank" wrote in message
...
(Bill Clark) wrote in
om:

Despite all its human flaws, the "NASA culture" has a strong can-do,
will-do attitude that makes it possible for them to achieve what
organizations ten times their size cannot.

...

I would even go so far as to say that the aerospace industry
was to blame for the Challenger disaster, not NASA employees.
Industry has motive, the employees do not.

You may go that far, but you'd be wrong. The historical record is quite
clear: engineers at Morton Thiokol (the "aerospace industry" you
disparage)
urged NASA to scrub the launch of Challenger. They were overruled by their
management, under direct pressure from NASA.

That "can-do" attitude can get deadly when it turns into "prove to me it's
unsafe to launch."

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JRF

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