re hst servicing mission scheduled for days in article t fu str access digex net prb access digex net pat writes in article may stsci edu dempsey stsci edu writes this is a real world too you can t do science like this with out doing politics as well unfortunately good pr keep the coming in do you know what makes rocket ships fly funding makes them fly no bucks no buck rogers ok so you have proven you saw the right stuff however as i said above it takes politics and pr to keep the bucks coming no politics no bucks no buck rogers i think you are missing the point if an agency has gathered some data on something and once tax dollars have been spent the data is now property of the people of the us government the government may charge to recover some of the cost or they may charge to maintain the data but they cannot claim the data is proprietary unless it is classified national security data yes this may be true in the case of the science data coming from the spacecraft and other stuff about the operations however there is still stuff regarding regular operation that belongs to the company and they have ever legal right to keeping it theirs but this does not mean that everything can or should be swept under the umbrella of company proprietory data i live down the road from nih they run studies all the time i can go into their library and photocoppy all the raw data from any study thev e done just bring a roll of quarters you can do the same here you just have to wait a year i m not saying you guys don t have internal rules but they are not supported by us law safeguard internal company data are indeed supported by us law dempsey
