08 Jul 2003, 07:42, MIKE ROSS (1:167/133), wrote to Charles Angelich:

Hi MIKE.

 CA>> NASA has outlived it's useful life and should be shut down
 CA>> period.

 MR> I think you're going too far but NASA should be restructured as a
 MR> scientific overseeing agency rather than as an integrator of 
 MR> space capabilities. The building and launching duties should belong 
 MR> to separate "rocketry" agencies and the scientific goals and 
 MR> standards of these overseen by NASA. In other words the 2nd
"A" stands 
 MR> for "Administration". As such NASA should remain involved in the 
 MR> training of personel and steering of the space program, whatever it 
 MR> may be.

AMEN!  Same problem we had in Vietnam, and may possibly (heaven forbid)
allow to happen again in any of a dozen places where US lives may be at
stake.  

"Administrators" should stay out of "operational"
matters.  The administrator makes the decision "This is what we're
going to do"; anything beyond that point belongs to the engineers
trained to do that job.


     Good luck...  M.

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