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Old January 9th 04, 10:10 PM
Charles Buckley
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Default Implications (Was, UPI Exclusive: Bush OKs new moon missions)

John Doe wrote:
Henry Vanderbilt wrote:

teaspoon. The only NASA option with a reasonable chance of success is to start
new organizations elsewhere and slap the NASA logo on their buildings, while
winding down and pensioning off the existing NASA manned space bureaucracies.



The danger in that is that the new organisations will be without any
experience and will make the same mistakes NASA has done.



Just bear in mind that NASA wasn't NASA back in the 1960's. There
was no core of skilled space techs and engineers.

The basic *tech* skills are far beyond what they were in
the 1960's. The *managerial* skills are much degraded.