CHARLES ANGELICH wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

RJT> And I don't think the expertise exists to do that these
RJT> days, if we wanted to for some reason. 

CA> It has been said and admitted to by NASA that they no longer employ
CA> people with sufficient skill sets to design replacements for the
CA> existing shuttles. I often wonder what skill sets they _do_ get for
CA> the billions of dollars being spent each year.  

Indeed.

I guess bureaucrats cost a lot these days...

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