Re: How to be immune from budget cuts

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:24:23 -0400, in a place far, far away, Josh
Hill <usereplyto@xxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

>>>fund nutty can't work projects like the X-33 (one
>>>engineer told me that if NASA was ever forced to do something like
>>>that again he would quit his job),
>>
>>Do you really think that NASA was "forced" to give that contract to
>>Lockmart, or choose their flawed concept?
>
>No, but it seems that the staff at NASA didn't believe in /any/ of the
>SSTO proposals.

They don't now. But that has nothing to do with reducing launch
costs. They don't seem to think that's possible, either. They're in
for a shock in the coming years, as they build their new white
elephants.
.

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