Re: NASA Appropriations FY-05

From: Terrell Miller (millerto_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 08:21:19 -0400

"Edward Wright" <edwright2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:32b558f9.0407211802.1c2132cd@posting.google.com...

> Then perhaps NASA should base its Space Exploration Initiative on
> commercial off-the-shelf items, which tend to go down in price, rather
> than government development programs, which tend to go up?

that's fine, as long as the COTS that NASA would buy all have the extreme
level of bugproofing, reliability and low power/volume requirements that you
need for spaceflight... 

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Terrell Miller
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