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Originally Posted by IvorT

I noticed how much time has moved on, since Apollo and Shuttle days. A few minutes before launch, the flight controller came on the voice net, and reminded everyone, that if there was a fire alarm during launch, designated people were to stay at their posts, all others evacuate the building. We now live in a health & safety culture. Sometimes good, sometimes bad.

In defence of NASA. Don’t know if this applies to contractors. Anything that is invented by NASA is not patented. The argument goes, that the US tax payer, already paid to fund NASA, they shouldn’t have to pay again to use what NASA invents.

NASA does patent its inventions but it also freely licenses them. Patent Portfolio