Max Power wrote:

What are the internal fax contact numbers for the NASA Pluto and Voyager Missions? I need to pass on a technical proposal...

    Having been on the inside of the gov (Navy not NASA) on the R&D funding side and receiving proposals do not waste your time. It was a while ago, before fax. But if you can't even call for an appointment who are you? A great idea but no way to implement it ... do you think I would run with it? Why?

    Worse than that, an idea is no more than an idea. Show that it works and you have my attention. A fax does not show me that it works. And if you do not know all the background on the idea better than I do not bother.

    But this is just the funding side. If you contact a researcher you better speak his language. As a manager it was one of languages I spoke as a job skill but shall we say the people I was funding did not hold me to a high standard of correctness whereas any outside contact will be held to a high standard.

    Enough discouragement. What you want to do is get hired by an existing contractor on the basis if developing your idea. If it is a good idea you have a good chance of getting the job and a modest budget and the support to help you package it into a saleable product.

    If you are interested in doing it the right way and are prepared to take a high risk job I will be happy to discuss this further.

    And if all you want to do is give a good idea to the world, this is as good a forum as any to make it public.