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- From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
- Subject: Re: Terminal Velocity of DCX? (was Re: Shuttle ...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.181158.27551@iti.org>
- Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
- References: <71877@cup.portal.com> <1992Dec22.160715.28828@iti.org> <SHAFER.92Dec22095137@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:11:58 GMT
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- In article <SHAFER.92Dec22095137@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov> shafer@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) writes:
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- >>You have done the 'creative accounting' here, I'd say.
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- >AS> No, it's NASA who is being creative by ignoring billions in cost. BTW,
- >AS> if a private company ran their books the way NASA does they would be
- >AS> thrown in jail for fraud.
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- >Like Air France and British Airways? Writing off the development
- >costs of the Concorde so that they could show a profit?
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- No because the books for Concord balance out. No effort was made to hide
- what they where doing and make it impossible to account for costs. Not so
- for NASA which constantly changes its estimates on what a flight costs and
- hides costs accross a range of line items.
-
- Allen
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