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NASA Investigates Possible Sabotage by Worker
mytrip writes "NASA said today it is investigating suspected sabotage of a recorder placed on the shuttle Endeavour for delivery to the space station where it will track physical stresses on the orbiting lab."
Someone tried to play "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" but discovered that one of the holes was blocked.
Dr Smith works for a subcontractor now? That Jupiter2 gig must have finished.
Talk about a vague story, I bet half the comments on Slashdot in the last 24 hours have more to them than that story did.
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More info at BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6918490.stm "The discovery came as an independent health panel found astronauts had been allowed to fly after drinking alcohol." Is this a joke? So all this time 'The Right stuff' was in reference to a Johnny Walker?!?
FTA: The recorder, which does not play a role in protecting astronauts or the space station, was damaged by an unidentified person or persons and will be repaired. No word yet on suspects, but NASA investigators said it was "peppered pretty good."
I was flipping bits on an abacus, newb.
The recorder came equipped with DRM/TC/Palladium and a boot-block monitor which only allowed MS signatures. The tech wanted to install Linux. Clipping the wires was the only way to bypass the DRM and put LILO on the HD.
the NPG electrode was replaced with carbon blac
Here everybody, this one has much more info: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/26/nasa.computers.re ut/
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070726/ap_on_re_us/sp ace_sabotage
According to that article the work also got the backup/ground test model (not sure what is, just that it wasn't flight hardware). Definitely not an accident
Or follow the story here, complete with links to the source articles at Reuters, AP, etc.
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It's management trying to cover their tracks.
Table-ized A.I.
It was just damaged, probably someone dropped it and put it back in hoping nobody would notice.
Happens all the time! Although you would hope people would be more willing to own up to that kind of thing for anything life threatening.
I guess they never talk about the guy that dropped the o-rings while they were putting them on the shuttle, huh...
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RTFA: The unidentified employee, who works for a NASA subcontractor, cut wires inside the computer that is supposed to be delivered to the international space station by Endeavour, officials said.
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
Between the sabotage news, the drunk astronaut news, and the following, this is looking like a pretty bad day for spaceflight:
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... According to KBAK-TV, the explosion took place at a Scaled Composites facility at the airport, but the TV station said they didn't know yet if any Scaled employees were among the casualties.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&q=mojave+e
http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2007/07/26/
According to local media reports, there has been a fatal explosion at a rocket test stand at Mojave Airport, home to a number of entrepreneurial space companies. Two people were killed and four people were injured. The company involved hasn't been identified; according to an amalgam of the sketchy reports available so far, it involved a nitrous oxide "flash explosion" on a test stand.
I'll bet we'll never hear the follow-up, other than that they'll find a scapegoat and put them away. But not every cut wire in the world is sabotage ... for all we know someone just pruned out an unused section of a wiring harness, or something. So it would be nice to hear what the effects were supposed to be before we get too excited about those evil bastards trying to save a few grams of weight on an expensive space flight.
Ah! She blinded me with science!
NASA is a dysfunctional bureaucracy that has killed dozens of our best and brightest people through carelessness, malfeasance, and incompetence.
No, they've killed one and a half dozen astronauts through making mistakes, and if you use your head for something other than keeping your ears apart you'll realize that making mistakes is part of their mission. That's what exploration and research are all about. How the hell do you expect to learn anything new if you don't make mistakes? Did you learn to walk without skinning your knees? Did you learn to use the toilet without crapping in your pants once or twice? Does any complex program compile the first (or fifth) time through without error?
Or do you think using chemical bombs to accelerate people and tons of hardware to 4 or 5 miles per second up into a hard vacuum, with reusable craft, over and over again, with randomly shifting priorities set by a bunch of accountants and lawyers is a trivial task, the kind of thing any moron can get right the first time?
Apparently you haven't learned that the way to avoid any mistake is totally obvious in hindsight, but that, alas, this profound wisdom has yet to reduce the frequency with which human beings make mistakes. Go accomplish something new and remarkable in your life, count up the goofs you make along the way, and then come back with a little more wisdom and a little less clueless arrogance.
The same inspection also caught a failed AE-35 antenna control module, which was removed and replaced. The defective module was tested and found to be in perfect working order; NASA spokepeople point to human error as the cause of the problem.
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There are certain things you never do in this world. Hold lit firecracker in your hand. Knock over a beehive. Watch news stories about celebrities who do things to be Media Attention Whores (MAWs).
But if there is anything that you never EVER do if you want to live, it is f*ck with a nerd's computer. If you f*ck with a NASA nerd's computer, you are dead where you stand.
Whoever this person is who has attempted to tamper with so much as a peice of recording equipment has attempted to tamper with an international construction project, possibly in an effort en expand the authoritative powers of the first world nations who are playing Chicken Little and shouting "The terrorists are coming. The sky is falling. Everybody panic!"
By compromising NASA's security, they have infringed upon the freedoms that they claim outsiders are taking from up when it is the people from within who can't keep their hands off of things they know they shouldn't be messing with.
NASA has had its share of scandels over the past year that are far more trivial compared to breaking into a laboratory owned by one of the most reviered organizations on the planet.
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And all the events happened in real-time..