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Can the Free Market Save the Space Program?
« on: May 05, 2010, 01:06:58 PM »
Interesting article: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1005.homans.html

He suggests that the real problem for NASA was Bush's policy and Griffin's management.  The constellation project was having serious technical problems with booster vibration, was underfunded and sucking the life out of NASA's scientific program.
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