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["Rick Tejera" <saguaroastro@xxxxxxx>]

Stan, Rick Etc,

The article was referencing the fact that B-N's experience is based on
acquired Companies (McDonnell Douglas & Grumman) that built the Mercury,
Gemini Apollo Command /Service Module (MDD) and the Lunar Module (Grumman).
It Mentioned that LM Martins "Inexperience" came in the realm of Manned
Spaceflight. It did acknowledge that LM had extensive experience in unmanned
space exploration & missile technologies. 


Rick Tejera 
President 
Editor SACnews
Saguaro Astronomy Club
Phoenix, Arizona
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www.saguaroastro.org


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Rick,
My information was from the news article that was referenced in Az-observing
yesterday. Unfortunately, I have already deleted the message and so I do not
have the url to go back and reread it. If the news article was highly
biased, than I would like to know in what way. 
Also, as you can see in my one sentence question below, I made no comparison
to LM but would like to know more about how it compares to B-N - If you
know. The news article did not say much about LM except to give an
impression, as I recall, that its experience was significantly less than B-N
with regard to the contract that was awarded. Is the the experience of LM in
this context incorrect?
Stan

Rick Scott wrote:

>Stan,
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>I don't know where you get your information, but Lockeed-Martin has a 
>long and extensive history in the space business. A large majority of 
>the spacecraft electronic systems I've designed has gone to LM.
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>Rick Scott
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>Stan Gorodenski wrote:
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>>Since Boeing-Northrop had extensive experience in space efforts in the 
>>past, I'm wondering if this is trickle down favoritism to cronies by 
>>bush or cheney, especially since NASA is so tight lipped?
>>Stan
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>>m24@xxxxxxx
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