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Old March 24th 04, 10:25 AM
Paul Blay
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Default MSNBC (JimO) - Hubble debate -- a lot of sound and fury

"William Elliot" wrote ...
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, John Doe wrote:

BenignVanilla wrote:
the politically safe path, and not launching to the Hubble. The nation cried
foul when the second shuttle was lost, and NASA is responding in CYA
fashion


Did the nation really cry foul ?

Indeed. Foul NASA, listen to your engineers!!!!!
Twice now you didn't and twice now you've made a fool of yourselves.

At least you did admit to the loss of two Mars missions because (oh
blush) you overlooked contractor and NASA were using different units of
measurement.


I've got a print out (somewhere) of a post
" Software "Hardness". was: Signal-to-noise" sci.space.moderated by RK,
2003 Aug 19
saying that re-use of software from MGS was involved. Unfortunately it looks
like he's one of those X-NO-ARCHIVE: YES nerps...