OM wrote:

....Is there a specific reason for this, such as a NIH prejudice,
God/Yahweh/Roddenberry forbid? Or is it a case as with different State
agencies, some of which use Word, others still use WordPerfect 20
years after it was clusterfracked?

Boy, you got me on that one also.
Jorge seems to think this is all rational and normal somehow.
I guess after you work for NASA for enough years, just about anything
and everything would seem "rational" and "normal", or at least "SNAFU". ;-)
Now, if they all standardized on "Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space" for
figuring these things out, a lot of confusion could be removed between
the various space centers. :-)

Pat