Re: Troubles parallel ambitions in NASA Mars project

["Bill Forster" <bill.forster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Martin Brown" <|||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> And if it is declared "ready" will it be a management decision for PR
> reasons like the ill fated Challenger disaster or a genuine "engineers
> ready to launch" with the hardware all fit for purpose.

Engineers will have the final say, as they have done since the Mars 98 failures
(e.g. they will not be driven by schedule).

> I would really like to see the thing work, but it is setting itself up
> for failure at present

It isn't setting itself up for failure.  No corners have been cut on the 
engineering
side; NASA learned the folly of corner-cutting on MPL.

> (and by robbing other NASA science projects of funds in the process it will
> compromise them too).

Which projects are those?  In any case, the overruns are apparently being
limited to the Mars program itself.