[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > BTW, not a lot of people know this, > > but Orville and Wilbur used the metric system :-)) > > So did 90 percent of the engineers on the US Mars > mission (non)lander couple years ago. =:O
But the measuring system mixup was not the real problem. Management was the real problem. The course errors were larger than expected and got bigger with each correction. Do you think that you might go looking for the problem BEFORE your spacecraft crashes into something? NASA problem management; 1. There is no problem 2. There is no problem, really 3. We looked and don't see a problem 4. We have done this lots of times without a problem 5. OOPS! 6. It seems there might be a problem Sorry for the shot at NASA but they have done this more than once. michael N6CHV AMA 77292 RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
