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Lost in Space

Charles Oliver | 3.25.2004 12:00 AM

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NASA can't account for some $34 million in government property. Items that it can't locate range from laptop computers to a robot. NASA says it tries to keep its equipment losses below 0.5% of the total number of items in its inventory each year.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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