Re: Astronauts should speak up

"Allan.Stern@xxxxxxxxx" <Allan.Stern@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But NASA's chief administer, paraphrasing Dubya's recent "I am a
decider" utterance, announced he was over-ruling the engineers and
approving the launch date. He was quick to announce, however, that if
we lost the vehicle now, he will shut down the whole program.

That's the short version that is innocent of any connection to the
facts of the matter or reality.

D.
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-Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings.
Oct 5th, 2004 JDL
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