Re: SPACE, THE FINAL FRONTIER...
"...Brought to you by the lowest bidding subcontractor...hmm."
D'ahh, c'mon, man. That joke's been around almost since the beginning of the Space Age.
As I recall, it comes from a comment John Glenn made in an interview in the early '60s, commenting on the early Mercury/Atlas booster test launches; during the test phase, Atlas boosters seemed to be malfunctioning and exploding during launch every other day.
See also "our rockets always blow up" in Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
