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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Subject: Re: Overly "success" oriented program causes failure
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.172108.11375@ke4zv.uucp>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Destructive Testing Systems
- References: <19519.2b2f721a@levels.unisa.edu.au> <1992Dec28.163339.25647@ke4zv.uucp> <2B40B0AD.5877@tct.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:21:08 GMT
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- In article <2B40B0AD.5877@tct.com> chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
- >According to gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman):
- >> Tzu-Pei Chen
- >>"The design of AUSROC II was in many ways too "positive". [...]
- >>Obviously, greater testing of each component may have shown up some
- >>of these problems earlier. This simply highlights the very limited
- >>resources with which the group currently works.
- >
- >What an obvious straw man, Gary! You picked an underfunded project,
- >which by simple lack of money was _forced_ into a schedule that
- >allowed for little unit testing. You then use its almost inevitable
- >failure as a bludgen to beat up the well-funded DC-1 program.
- >
- >For shame.
-
- DC-1 is well funded? Last I heard MacDD hadn't found *any* sugardaddy
- to fund it *at all*. They've latched onto some SDIO money to fund
- DC-X, but that's just an atmospheric test article, not a SSTO vehicle.
- Their strawman paper budgets for an eventual DC-Y prototype and follow
- on DC-1 production vehicle are underfunded by historic standards of
- new spacecraft development programs. No actual money has been allocated
- for either proposal.
-
- For shame indeed.
-
- Gary
-
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