Commentary 25 The facts of this case fail to support the analysis offered Commentary on A Case Study of NASA's Cassini Project Larry J. Shuman Department of Industrial Engineering University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15261 Shuman+@pitt.edu Weighing the benefits of technology against its potentially harmful effects has generated lively debate in the past and will undoubtedly continue to do so in the future, especially as more revolutionary advances that impact larger populations materialize. The issue addressed by Mr. Valentino--the use of radioactive materials in spacecraft--has provoked extraordinarily heated arguments and most likely will remain a serious public policy concern well into the next century. Mr. Valentino is refreshingly frank in displaying a strong conviction that the Cassini launch decision represents an outrageous example of "Big Government" overpowering dissent by sheer strength rather than judicious consideration. He is not alone in his fears regarding the danger of an accidental plutonium release. Even within NASAand the aerospace industry there were engineers who shared this concern and, consequently, objected to the launch. However, the Valentino paper, although well written, projects an impression of an angry protest rather than the objective case study and careful analysis anticipated by these readers. It provides
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Commentary on a case study of NASA's Cassini project
Shuman, Larry J.; Kayten, Gerald
Follow ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
, Volume 23 (1)
Association for Computing Machinery – Feb 1, 1999
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