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Old August 27th 03, 01:46 PM
Paul F. Dietz
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Default NASA Administrator Accepts Columbia Accident Report

David A. Scott wrote:

Are they kidding. Isn't this like before. Management never
accepts real responsiblitiy. That just flap there jaws and
go on. There will like last time be no real lasting changes.
By not pointing the finger at the managers at the top involved
they failed to correct the problem.


Management's response here is not the ultimate cause of the
accidents. The cause is a fundamentally flawed policy. Ask
a bureaucracy to do something impossible and that bureaucracy
will exhibit all sorts of pathological behaviors.

Now, it's quite possible that the managers who have 'grown up'
in this funhouse are irremediably damaged. If so, the solution
would be scorched earth: end government-controlled manned spaceflight
for at least a generation. This is also the solution to bad
policy (vs. the keep throwing money at it solution that's been used
for more than two decades.)

Paul