The Space Review published a brace of excellent articles on the problems experienced by the Mars Science Laboratory. The first deals with the technical challenges, the second with the budgetary challenges. Put together, they provide a good look at the types of problems that occur in large technology development projects.
These articles are riddled with errors making them only vaguely representative of the actual history.
ReplyDeleteI hope that you will post examples, especially if the reporting errors would lead to a misunderstanding of the fundamental issues.
ReplyDeleteI read this like you, and found it a *seriously* flawed account, and let's just say "I was there."
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These articles provide a reasoned history of the development of MSL. Next up, make it to launch without costing any more $$$$$$
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