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"The horse has left the barn"
« on: 08/28/2008 06:04 pm »
Not sure if he is blowing smoke, but Wayne Hale has an interesting blog post

Then we started sending out termination letters. About two years ago, we terminated 95% of the vendors for parts for the external tank project, for example. Smaller, but still significant, percentages of vendors for SSME, Orbiter, and RSRB have also been terminated.

Seems to be a big deal.  Most of these are mom-and-pop shops that would not be able to reconstitute their capability quickly.

Less germane but cute was

I believe it was General Norman Schwartzkopf who said:  "Arm chair generals study tactics; real generals study logistics". 

http://wiki.nasa.gov/cm/blog/waynehalesblog/posts/post_1219932905350.html

Thought it was a good read.


 

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Re: "The horse has left the barn"
« Reply #1 on: 08/28/2008 06:09 pm »
One Percent for Space!!!

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Re: "The horse has left the barn"
« Reply #2 on: 08/28/2008 06:12 pm »
Thanks.   I thought an angle of "exploration alternatives" would be good.  moderators can decide.

This is already being discussed here:

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=14168.msg310496;topicseen#msg310496

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