Re: Oberg-msnbc: Did NASA space robot dodge disaster?

From: Ed Ruf (egruf_usenet_at_cox.net)
Date: 11/10/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:07:42 -0500

On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 23:05:53 GMT, in sci.space.policy "Jim Oberg"
<jameseoberg@houston.rr.com> wrote:

>Did NASA space robot dodge disaster?
>
>Launch managers pull the plug at the last minute
>
>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6444226/
>
>By James Oberg, NBC News space analyst // Special to MSNBC
>
>Updated: 5:13 p.m. ET Nov. 9, 2004
>
> HOUSTON - NASA's plans to test the technology for an automated
>rendezvous in space may have been doomed from the start, the SpaceRef Web
>site reported Tuesday. The payload, called DART, might have become crippled
>before it even reached outer space.

Don't know about that, but it would appear the gave away a perfect launch
opportunity for the Hyper-X Mach 10 flight test to a program which it now
might seem should have known long ago it wasn't ready to launch all along.
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