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Comments     Threshold   By corduroygt on 12/13/2010 2:02:06 PM
, Rating: -1 What happened to the brilliant NASA of the 60s and
70s?  RE: Nanofail By CheesePoofs on 12/13/2010 2:25:31 PM ,
Rating: 5 Nothing .. they too lost spacecraft.  RE: Nanofail By
theapparition on 12/13/2010 4:02:36 PM , Rating: 4 Americans
lost thier way, not NASA.  NASA had countless setbacks, some
even at the cost of human life, but always kept moving forward.
Part of that was the drive of exploration, part politics, and
part because the American people loved the innovation. Because
of these things, money poured in.  Then public interest dried
up, politics no longer mattered, and more importatnly, people
cared more about re-runs of MASH than NASA. Plus new regulations
such as OSHA and EPA issues drove cost. Gone was the "let's
light this candle and see what happens mentality", replaced by
the "OMG, what happens if something goes wrong, how can we get
sued". Liability costs s