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To: Rocket Scientist who wrote (6612)	8/12/1999 2:02:00 PM
From: JMD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10852

RMiethe is NOT Readware, though I admit to seeing the similarity in writing styles and initially thought they might be one in the same. Readware obviously doesn't post in any public forum and hasn't for some time. He's alive, well, and as feisty as ever--but a very private person. IMO, he underestimated one thing and one thing only: that when the launch industry went to "for profit" mode from earlier NASA days, that certain 'pressures' would come into play that, shall we politely say, curtailed pre-launch quality control procedures. In plain speech, a number of rockets went splat simply because the fuse was lit a bit prematurely. Readware "failed" to see that the industry transition from public to private might involve a few wrinkles (assuming we can now look back on Zenit as a mere "wrinkle"). That was an expensive miss, one could argue, in that the launch failure, when combined with soldering espionage,the Cox witch hunt, and the incredible revelation that the CIA is not the only spying operation on the planet, put LOR/G* in deep freeze for the better part of 2 years. But I'd have to say Readware got just about every other major element of the satellite industry dead on, which for my money, is pretty damn good. best, mike doyle