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To: SAMWolf
You can see by my #10 that I am not happy with NASA. Needs to be seen for what it is. Then flush the toilet.

Gus Grissom, killed on Apollo 5, was once asked if riding that thing made him nervous. Grissom responded, "That machine has three million different parts, and each one of them was built by the lowest bidder."

Those boys knew.

I know exactly how good I am, and I am better than some, worse than others. NASA consumes twenty billion dollars a year and produces nothing but government paychecks for government employees.

I am a space guy since well before puberty. Man, do they need fixing.

11 posted on 08/09/2004 1:18:04 AM PDT by Iris7 ("Democracy" assumes every opinion is equally valid. No one believes this is true.)
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To: Iris7

The problem with NASA as with most government agencies is that it becomes bloated with bureaucrats and the orignal purpose of the agency is forgotton or buried under the bureacracy.


24 posted on 08/09/2004 7:36:18 AM PDT by SAMWolf (Warning: Politicians can be hazardous to your wealth.)
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To: Iris7

Good morning Iris7.

I've seen how the government works from the inside and it isn't pretty. It's wasteful and there are some bureaucrats and even the some contract vendors who will lie and mislead to bring a project to a it's deadline, no matter the cost.

It's all about the money. And the beat goes on.


36 posted on 08/09/2004 8:08:24 AM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: Iris7
Gus Grissom, killed on Apollo 5...

Just for the record, it was Apollo 1.

77 posted on 08/09/2004 3:18:19 PM PDT by SirAllen (Liberalism*2 = Communism)
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