Re: First Iridium and now this

From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Sun Mar 26 2000 - 13:43:13 MST


Jeff Davis wrote:

> Question: Is the person in charge of the disposition of the Compton Gamma
> Ray Observatory the same person who was in charge of the Mars Polar Orbiter
> orbital insertion regimen? Cause it sure looks like he's in possession of
> the same skill set. Get a clue. Pink slip that turkey.

That would be Dan faster-better-cheaper Goldin, who insists that there
is nothing wrong with the FBC theory, just the implementation. He might
be right, but I have another spin on it: good times in the computer industry
may be brain-draining aerospace. Goldin has been a mixed blessing to
NASA: whatever one thinks of him, he does have *vision*. spike



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