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Article #3634Re: Hubble
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:06
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:06
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In article <wkv102l@rpi.edu> kentm@aix.rpi.edu (Michael V. Kent) writes:
>>The really interesting space
>>telescopes are the small ones, not the megaprojects...
>
>...An optimist would say NASA has gotten out of the
>megaproject mentality. A pessimist....Henry?
I'd say they're being slowly forced out of it because cost bloat has
gotten so bad that Congress will no longer tolerate it. They still
see small projects as supplements to the megaprojects rather than
replacements for them, though; it's only just starting to dawn on
them that there won't be any more megaprojects.
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