Re: $35 Million of Equipment Missing from NASA.....
- From: "Brian Gaff" <Briang1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:39:42 GMT
Its probably really all just lost ball point pens.. This micro gravity
makes stuff float away you know!
:-)
Brian
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> $35M of Equipment Missing from NASA
> By UPI
> Apr 21, 2005, 23:57 GMT
>
> WASHINGTON -- More than $35 million worth of equipment is missing from
> the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, WTOP-AM in
> Washington, D.C.reported Thursday.
>
> The report said documents obtained through the Freedom of Information
> Act showed NASA cannot account for thousands of items in its
> inventory.The items are missing from NASA's 10 space centers across
> the country as well as the headquarters in Washington, the report
> said.
>
> Those items include everything from lawn mowers to rocket
> launchers."We don't consider anything an acceptable loss," NASA
> spokesperson Robert Mirelson told WTOP.The missing items also include
> laptops, micro computers and hard drives, which some fear may contain
> sensitive information.But Mirelson said since NASA doesn't deal in
> large quantities of proprietary information, it is unlikely that any
> classified information has been lost or has fallen into wrong hands.
>
>
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