"It's time for a rethink... At the highest levels of
the agency, there seems to be a belief that you can mandate
reality, followed by a refusal to accept any information that runs
counter to that mandate."
Source: NASA engineer Jeff Finckenor, who
resigned from the Ares I rocket program last month, in his farewell
letter to colleagues obtained by agency watchdog NASAWatch.com. The
Orlando Sentinel cites anonymous sources in reporting that a
tendency by the solid-fuel rocket to drift laterally immediately
after ignition poses a risk of damage to -- or even a collision
with -- the launch tower... the latest in a series of technical
problems to plague NASA's next-generation rocket program.
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