Re: CEV PDQ



Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer) wrote:
> On Mon, 16 May 2005 05:40:38 -0500, rk
> <stellare@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > http://www.thespacereview.com/article/372/1
> >
> > Why technology projects fail
> > by Eric R. Hedman
> > Monday, May 16, 2005
> >
> > The recent failure, or partial failure, of the DART mission by NASA's Marshall
> > Space Flight Center is just the latest example of a significant technology
> > project with a less-than-ideal outcome. In addition to DART, which was a
> > leftover of the Orbital Space Plane project, we can count the DC-X, the X-33,
> > the Orbital Space Plane itself, and the National Aerospace Plane (NASP) among
> > the higher profile projects that failed. NASA's history in the last couple of
> > decades has been littered with projects that have failed or were terminated
> > before even reaching the testing stage. Other government agencies and private
> > industry are no different in having strings of projects terminated or failed.
> > That begs the question, "Why?"
> >
> > -end excerpt-
>
> That's not what "begs the question" means, but anyway....
>
> In at least one case, NASP, the failure was caused by the inability of
> bureaucrats to acknowledge the laws of physics, followed shortly by
> their inability to change those laws, no matter how many PowerPoint
> slides they threw at them.

To be fair to bureaucrats, that is common flaw across most technical
fields. I know a lot of software engineers who mistake Slideware for
software, often with quite comical and expensive results.

Dave

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