What happens when a space program gets canceled?
FEB 09, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024067
Slate : What will NASA do with all the technology that it has already developed but can no longer continue financing ?Give it away, sell it, or toss it. When NASA cancels a program or no longer needs certain pieces of equipment, it hands the material over to a property disposal officer who then finds the best way to get rid of it. Related Physics Today article NASA sells technology rights to highest bidder January 2009
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