Steve,
Thanks for the story. I've suspected this is how $3.4 billion decisions are
made. ;-)
Bob
At 06:16 PM 5/29/99 -0700, Steve Laifman wrote:
>I think, in due modesty, that I made the best and last argument for using the
>Titan rocket. I stood up in the meeting at JPL and told their senior panel
>that it would be presumptuous of them to launch the Cassini, and attempt a
>soft
>landing of a probe on Saturn's moon, "Titan", if they did not launch the
>payload on a "TITAN".
>
>There was a dead silence in the room, then the senior panelist smiled and said
>it was the best argument for vehicle down-selection he'd heard all day.
>
>{9->
>
>And they picked the Titan, and it flew on time and perfectly. Whew!
>
>Steve
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> < and don't let it get away!>
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Robert L. Palmer
Dept. of AMES, Univ. of Calif., San Diego
rpalmer@ames.ucsd.edu
rpalmer@cts.com
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