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The National Reconnaissance Office recently gave two very good but incomplete satellites with large telescopes to NASA. Which is trying very hard to ignore the gifts, because their operational plan has no place for them:
http://nasawatch.com/archives/2012/06/these-are-not-t.html
This is the same management by flowchart which cost us _Columbia_. These are valuable assets which could do important and useful science. They could even be a good stopgap substitute if something happens to Hubble before the over budget and behind schedule James Webb Space Telescope is finally launched.
Come on, NASA! You used to be good at improvising.
http://nasawatch.com/archives/2012/06/these-are-not-t.html
This is the same management by flowchart which cost us _Columbia_. These are valuable assets which could do important and useful science. They could even be a good stopgap substitute if something happens to Hubble before the over budget and behind schedule James Webb Space Telescope is finally launched.
Come on, NASA! You used to be good at improvising.
