Boeing Threw Out Parts Bound for Space Station.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 30, 2000 Aerospace giant Boeing accidentally tossed parts bound for NASA's International Space Station into the garbage in last month. The company searched a local landfill in vain for two $750,000 air tanks BUSINESS WEEK reports. Boeing says they had been moved aside on the floor of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), the original home of NASA, is a lead center for propulsion, Space Shuttle propulsion, Shuttle external fuel tank, crew training and payloads, International Space Station (ISS) design and construction, for computers, networks, and in Huntsville, Ala., to make room for other work. Somehow, they were forgotten and hauled to the dump. This isn't the first time Boeing has lost parts. In the 1980s it threw out an 800-pound gyroscope gyroscope (jī`rəskōp'), symmetrical mass, usually a wheel, mounted so that it can spin about an axis in any direction. When spinning, the gyroscope has special properties. . One Boeing engineer figures that the company loses $200,000 worth of parts each year. Boeing's contract requires NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. to cover "contingencies" -- such as critical parts that are trashed. But after trying to foist foist tr.v. foist·ed, foist·ing, foists 1. To pass off as genuine, valuable, or worthy: "I can usually tell whether a poet . . . the bill on taxpayers, on Mar. 10 Boeing said it would pony up. |
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