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[QUOTE]Originally posted by newark: [QB] I am opposed to NASA. I wasn't always this way. When I was younger, I was very supportive of our space program. However, over the past few years and having read countless articles on the program, I grown more hostile. I see an agency running on fumes. They are using antiquated machinery which can be bought on-line from E-Bay and other computer junkyard stores. Their facilites are degrading and their best people are leaving for lucrative jobs in the private sector. They no longer have the ability to build a second replacement shuttle for the knowledge and materials aren't available. I say very clearly that I blame the officials at NASA for their incompetence in running the program, and their incompetence has played a contributing factor in the loss of seven lives. (Accidents are the result of many factors. From the accidents I have read or heard about, one of the factors which contribute greatly to an accident is one of mismanagement of money. If X had put more money into this Y (thing, system, etc.), the accident wouldn't have occured.) I know many of you support space exploration. But, please take off the blinders. This program is in serious trouble and no amount of evasion by you will hide that fact. There are reports by the GAO and commissions which show an agency in desperate need of a fix. Would you be as forgiving if an airline company had let an airplane filled with passengers be destroyed by the stresses and pressures of the stratosphere if you knew the airline was in financial trouble and had sent the airplane knowng there might be potential dangers in flying an aging plane whose last overall was cancelled due to budgetary concerns? I wouldn't be, nor should you. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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