I work at a company that produces products for NASA and it's prime contractors. We have had equipment on every launch. That being said here is the normal progression of a current space project (I propose the normal progression for any technilogical company).
1) Come up with really big/difficult idea.
2) Present to some form of management.
3) Management trims back budget/scope/difficulty.
4) Present to customer (NASA / Boeing / Lockheed/ etc).
5) Customer trims budget/scope/difficulty.
6) Produce useless piece of equipment that is no where close to the orginal idea.
7) Program canceled and billions are spent to figure what went wrong.
8) Budget trimmed for next year's space program.
9) Repeat.
WTF... Why do we even try. I live in a Dilbert world. After management and the customer are finished with a project we have a lack of vision and creativity. We're lucky if it doesn't blow up!
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I work at a company that produces products for NASA and it's prime contractors. We have had equipment on every launch. That being said here is the normal progression of a current space project (I propose the normal progression for any technilogical company). 1) Come up with really big/difficult idea. 2) Present to some form of management. 3) Management trims back budget/scope/difficulty. 4) Present to customer (NASA / Boeing / Lockheed/ etc). 5) Customer trims budget/scope/difficulty. 6) Produce useless piece of equipment that is no where close to the orginal idea. 7) Program canceled and billions are spent to figure what went wrong. 8) Budget trimmed for next year's space program. 9) Repeat. WTF... Why do we even try. I live in a Dilbert world. After management and the customer are finished with a project we have a lack of vision and creativity. We're lucky if it doesn't blow up!