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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (244200)7/30/2005 12:36:12 PM
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"NASA's growing reliance on antiquated parts is a measure of how far its star has fallen."

A large part of the problem is that the director of NASA gets replaced at every election cycle and the new director has a vision that doesn't include any of the projects of the previous director. So no new projects ever gets finished. We should have been on our second generation of shuttle replacements, but we aren't. Look at the space station. The design started in the first Reagan administration, but nothing flew until 1998. It took less time to go to the moon...
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