NASA Ties Shuttle Gauge Woes to Bad Part

December 19, 2007 By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer

(AP) -- NASA on Tuesday traced fuel gauge failures in shuttle Atlantis' tank to a bad connector, and a top manager said he did not know how long it would take to replace the part or when the spaceship might fly.

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nilbud - Dec 28, 2007
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How come NASCAR is better at this than NASA?
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vlam67 - Dec 30, 2007
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This MO of NASA getting parts from cheapest bidders and the culture of horse trading politics for management of bleeding edge technologies had been awfully expensive with constant costs over-runs and defective parts. NASA has mostly turned into a lumbering PR machine to do the massive job of sexing up the eroded image as the leader in frontier science and technology. As always, the politicos will blame on this and that, and tax-payers will have to keep paying the bills for their mutual-masturbation of egos and prestige.
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