19 Jan
2014
19 Jan
'14
12:42 a.m.
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 05:29:16PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
It should have been
common knowledge that the biggest contributor to JPL's payroll had been
mandating metric units for decades when that little "forehead slapper"
occurred.
No just common knowledge. In the space business you can't create
even the most trivial piece of hardware, software, or process
without having an Interface Control Document for it. And those
ICDs are reviewed. Yet the interface between JPL and NASA was
apparently 'undefined'...
Ciao,
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