Re: NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputer

In article <49f32980-721c-49bf-aada-1295efbce55d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Neil Rieck <n.rieck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I hope people don't take my previous comments the wrong way. Being a
child of the 1950s made me a part of the sputnik craze along with the
subsequent American manned landings on the moon. But NASA has changed
and it seems to me that if it weren't for JPL, that there wouldn't be
much science at all in the American space program. Also, I recently
heard a story on NPR (thank god for Sirius satelite radio)...

NASA has transformed from the premier engineering organisation that
did some science on the side to a big bureaucracy that also does
engineering and science.

But almost everything we do at the Goddard Space Flight Center is
science. JPL does most of the deep space missions, GSFC does most
of the earth orbiting missions; every other NASA installation (JPL
is actually a contractor) has its specialty.

So why haven't you heard of the GSFC science missions? Because
the Hubble Space Telescope is the only one of them the media pays
any attention enough for its name to be recognised. Its NASA's
number one PR machine as well as one hell of a good science resource.

.

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