[Boatanchors] Space Shuttle (OT, kinda)

[J. Forster]

> Thanks for posting the URL it's beautiful.

Yes. That's why I originally posted it.  :)

> As a retired Quality
> Assurance Specialist who worked for the Defense Contracts Management
> Agency I can assure you that the lowest bidder was not likely to get a
> contract at all.

I was in the aerospece industry for a number of years on several
spacecraft payloads. I learnt one important thing, after seeing others
screw up:

"You cannot inspect in quality." It has to be built in.

YMMV,

-John

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> We conducted a rigorous pre-contract inspection to make sure that the
> bidder had the proper facilities and most important the proper quality
> control capabilities to ensure compliance with- every- standard
> especially when the contract covered man rated air and spacecraft and
> Navy Nuclear.  We also had in-plant inspectors at every facility to make
> damn sure the contract requirements were followed to the letter.  We did
> -not- mess around as several culprits found out ending up in prison for
> Fraud, Waste, and Abuse.  Felony charges not misdemeanors.
> We did everything in our power to ensure our military and NASA got the
> best available.  Congress on the other hand cut NASA's budget so much
> that we ended up with the inferior design that gave us two catastrophic
> failures in the Shuttle fleet.  I realize that you were joking around
> about the low bidders and I do have a sense of humor, just thought I'd
> put my $.02 worth in.
> 73  Gary  N9ZSV
>
>
> On 7/10/2011 4:13 PM, Robert Nickels wrote:
>> On 7/10/2011 12:15 PM, bonddaleena at aol.com wrote:
>>
>>> Gee, the most complicated machine ever made, and made by the low
>>> bidder.......
>>>
>> And if you want confirmation, take a look for yourself:
>>
>> http://360vr.com/2011/06/22-discovery-flight-deck-opf_6236/index.html
>>
>> (delete any asterisks the mail program may put in the above URL for
>> reasons unknown to me)
>>
>> 73, Bob W9RAN
>>
>>
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