Re: Space funding (was Re: Hillary needs to quit)

Oops, pv+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (PV) writes:
>NASA disagrees, since they're sending out teams to aerospace junkyards
all
>over the planet, looking for J2 engine parts. They've lost a lot of the
>design plans needed to build them again, and also lost almost all of the
>institutional knowledge as to why they were built the way they were, and
>how individual parts were machined. It's the biggest loss of engineering
>knowledge of all time. That's NASA today.

It's been a while since I read the story about Norton Sales
(http://www.nortonsalesinc.com/)
making a fortune selling NASA it's own
stuff back (Apparently the X-prize people love this place too), and I
don't
remember for sure whether it was the J2 or the F1 engine that NASA has
lost
the paperwork on. They're both the best examples of high-energy rocketry
ever produced though, and it's a mortal sin to lose track of anything
about
either one. *
-- 
* PV   something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
       like corkscrews.