robert casey wrote:

NASA has a rather large PR department, adjacent to a large
"technology licensing" department, all of which is intended
to help support NASA operations' budgets. Their PR is on a
higher level than the ARRL's PR, but both tend to generate
a considerable number of MYTHS in their respective areas.


NASA pays people to write "MYTHS"...???

He probably was talking about the supposed "spin-offs"
from the space program to regular consumer products.
Many such were actually spin doctoring. But the space
program was/is still worth doing, and some products were
developed quicker because of it. ICs and such.

Actually it was yet another LennieRant effort to try and minimize
anything that he didn't do first, do better or "get paid for"...Of
course if he was able to take a swipe at Amateur Radio in the process,
well..that was a bonus...

73

Steve, K4YZ