Resurrecting the right stuff. (National Aeronautics and Space Administration's procurement methods; includes related article) (NASA, part 2)

From: Florida Trend | Date: March 1, 1992| Author: Fishman, Charles | Copyright information

NASA has gotten hooked on space spectaculars. But a space program for the 21st century requires a whole new mind-set about space travel -- starting small.

It is the rate NASA scientist who can make sense of what has gone wrong with America's space program. At the nation's great space centers -- in Texas, Alabama, Florida -- the middle-aged engineers who have made their careers at NASA and who now run it do realize that something is seriously off.

But why? Why? They...