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Re: Dave's other cars keep going

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Originally Posted by Richard
I have no idea how the budget/planning process works at NASA. Where I work, an up-front investment that lasted 10 times as long as planned and allowed us to continue making a product for which there was continuing demand -- well, we'd call that a good problem to have.
My company also. Budgets are profit based. If the product still sells, then it sustains itself.

The "Profit" on this project is tremendous. What they get out of it is priceless, but this is a government budget we are talking about. It's not like they can print money
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