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Hello Mike - 

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

Read some of this website:

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/
flat_iss_010617.html 

"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA underestimated costs and failed to
grasp the complexity of the International Space Station
program, resulting in $4 billion of extra expense and changes
to the project that have crippled the outpost's scientific
promise. 

That's the conclusion of a special report published by FLORIDA
TODAY newspaper on June 17, 2001. FLORIDA TODAY, whose
circulation area includes the Kennedy Space Center, is owned by
Gannett Co., Inc., a strategic media partner of SPACE.com. 

FLORIDA TODAY's space team spent the past few months reviewing
more than 1,000 pages of documents, many obtained through the
Freedom of Information Act, to determine where the money went
and why the cost overruns happened in the first place. 

Contract changes, ignored warnings, program delays, mistakes
and optimism are all cited as contributors to the problem in
the series of reports that includes a history of the space
station program and reaction from scientists. That complete
report is now available here on SPACE.com."

Then some from this website:

http://mae.pennnet.com/News/Display_News_Story.cfm?
Section=WireNews&SubSection=HOME&NewsID=81869 

"In unusual situations, NASA can ask for pictures of the shuttle
from spy satellites in space. Some NASA engineers, fearing
Columbia had been damaged, wanted satellite photos of the
shuttle after it was in orbit. But managers decided the photos
weren't necessary."

If you don't like my choices put "NASA mistakes" into Google
and choose others.

Then get back to me and explain why you think NASA should
manage a 7/11 store. 

Or, if you would rather, we can disucss absurd mathematical
formulae to determine the speed of styrofoam versus the shuttle
and use lots of big words and pretend that we actually can think
independent thoughts and use logic and reason.

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