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Old Dec 20, 2010 | 06:22 AM
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How would you like to be the person that signed off on this calculation?

http://www.asdnews.com/news/32520/Fuel_err...=ASDNews_DNH_Z1
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Old Dec 20, 2010 | 08:36 AM
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And to think they will be handling our Nasa payloads for the foreseeable future.
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Old Dec 20, 2010 | 09:25 AM
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"Too soon Junior."
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Think somebody is taking a new "vacation" in Siberia now?

That would have cost them a bloody fortune!
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Sounds like one vendor used metric dimensions and another used fractional...

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Originally Posted by RedY2KS2k,Dec 20 2010, 09:02 PM
Sounds like one vendor used metric dimensions and another used fractional...

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That is what NASA contractors did a few years ago. In this case I think that someone just F***ed up.
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some poor engineer listened to his program manager just a little too often.
But I'd bet it came in on time and on budget....
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Originally Posted by boltonblue,Dec 21 2010, 08:11 AM
some poor engineer listened to his program manager just a little too often.
But I'd bet it came in on time and on budget....
That is NOT the time to budget the fuel costs.
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