Defense and government contractors couldn't make anything inexpensive if their lives depended on it. -Alex Roland

 

Defense and government contractors couldn't make anything inexpensive if their lives depended on it.


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The shuttle could never do what the agency tried to make it do, and so they traded off safety. I don't blame the managers; they were presented with an impossible job.

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Defense and government contractors couldn't make anything inexpensive if their lives depended on it.

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We can't afford it. It's going to cost much more than this 5 percent increment in the NASA budget that they're talking about. -Alex Roland
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It's probably harmless, ... but it trivializes the space program. It seems as if they've got nothing better to do than send up an old, outdated senator.

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In a budget crisis of its own making.

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NASA is plodding along doing what it's been doing for decades, ... Astronauts have been flying up there for 17-18 years, and it's hard to see what they've accomplished. -Alex Roland
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There is no question in my mind that it would be best policy to say forget it.

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