Interesting Article About NASA

[Ryan Albright]

Originally Posted by ScottOliveira

It is true that NASA routinely goes overbudget and suffers delays. However the same is true for many government contractors and agencies. NASA tends to go even more overbudget, because they have a very difficult task. How many FIRST teams could keep to their budgets and timelines if once they shipped the bot they could never work on it again (i.e. no repairs or modifications at regionals, everything has to run as is, and no battery changes). NASA has to try to make machines with as close to a 0% failure rate as possible, and it is never easy to try to do something like that.

*DISCLAIMER*Just off the note I am not saying I agree with the article. I just posted it for discussion