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Article #7089Re: Fabrication (was fast track failures)
From: Doug Mohney
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 17:32
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 17:32
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In article <C0Cv53.CBC@zoo.toronto.edu>, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Gary's comments (the >>> above) are squarely in the NASA mold: if you
>do it right on paper, it will work the first time (although of course
>you test it just in case). Unfortunately, the real world doesn't work
>that way, as witness any number of NASA projects that *didn't* work
>the first time. Real-world development involves *finding out* what
>works and what doesn't... and you cannot do that on paper. You have
>to test things *during* the engineering, not just afterward.
To hell with that. Take a look at the "commercial" world. OSC's teething
problems are quite amusing... I understand SDIO started shopping around for
other launchers after the second or third Pegasus launch.
I have talked to Ehud, and lived.
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Newsgroups: sci.space Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!mojo.eng.umd.edu!cadlab.eng.umd.edu!SYSMGR From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney) Subject: Re: Fabrication (was fast track failures) Message-ID: <1993Jan05.173242.14563@eng.umd.edu> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 17:32:42 GMT Organization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park References: <1993Jan4.171213.11272@ke4zv.uucp> <1993Jan4.202421.11388@cs.ucf.edu> <ewright.726192136@convex.convex.com>,<C0Cv53.CBC@zoo.toronto.edu> Reply-To: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu Lines: 17