Derek Lyons wrote:

"Alan Erskine" wrote:


"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
thdakotatelephone...

http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/20...pdr_slips.html

Pat

They're having all sorts of problems; is this kind of thing unusual in a
major program? I mean, to have this many problems this early (booster, CM
etc)...


It's not unusual at all - the capsule programs of the 60's had it just
as bad, as did the Shuttle. The difference it that because of the
'net the problems are visible to thousands of armchair engineers very
nearly in real time.

There is also the difference that in the sixties, those building space ships were considered the cutting edge of
engineering. Problems were considered normal. Nowadays, people expect engineers to be able to re-solve the problems that
were already solved in the fifties and sixties without much difficulty.


Alain Fournier