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Dr. John Brandenburg: Confessions of a NASA Space Scientist

Earth Ancients

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The JPL-NASA Feud

There's a long-running feud between JPL and NASA Johnson, or as I call it, Houston or Pasadena. Pasadena wants to do everything robotically; Houston is a manned flight spaceflight. And there's all of this tension between those. We have gotten far more support from the manned spaceflight people than we have from the JPL crowd. But part of what's going on is just a regular old organizational feud within NASA.

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