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- From: BrianT@cup.portal.com (Brian Stuart Thorn)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Let's be more specific (was: Stupid Shut Cost arguement
- Message-ID: <72827@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 15:48:20 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- >NASA is chartered as a research organization, not an operational agency.
- >Shuttle is operations, not research.
-
- Shuttle is the only manned system we have, so it is in large part
- still a research article. I agree, however, that operations is
- the major part of the Shuttle system.
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- >>Pegasus as a current example of the effect of optimistic development
- >>scheduling. That causes financial problems for a commercial venture
- >>that government agencies can shrug off.
- >
- >However, DCX is on budget and has slipped very little (30 days in a three
- >year contract). It looks like these guys know more than you about how
- >do schedule launcher development.
-
- As Gary and I pointed out, Pegasus really started slipping after
- maiden flight... about eighteen months between flights 2 and 3, to
- be precise. That DC-X has slipped little prior to maiden flight is
- a good sign, but hardly justifies such smugness.
-
- -Brian
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