Whole-heartily agree... Even back during the first space shuttle disasters the jokes were circulating all the local Florida schools the SAME day. I still remember around 10 of them.

The jokes, while tasteless, were still funny. The thing is when I remember one of those jokes, it immediately gives way to pause as I reflect back to that day, looking up and seeing the orange flash on my way to school. That moment wasn't funny to anyone, and it will forever be burned into my history.

Except this is Commerical Access To Space, so shouldn't it be CATS?

I for one am all for exporting CATS into space.

I'm there as well, with Doors, Epic TeamCenter and a hodgepodge of 'homebrew' tools. Do yourself a favor and do a serious evaluation of Seapines suite. Their Surround SCM is a great repository that has a lot of more modern features. The defect tracking tool is very easy to modify to suit my needs at past employers. And now I hear they have a fairly decent requirements management tool.

I can't speak for the requirements tool, but the others integrate with each other VERY well. All their products has web based versions, and all there products cost about 1/10th of Rationals.

I'm currently, slowly, trying to push my current employer over on the software side of the house and see if it doesn't work it's way up.

No matter what you do, do and extremely DETAILED evaluation of the combination you want. Once your decide on a toolset you likely locked in for a long time due to corporate politics.

Sounds like it would make a great game too... Maybe we could call it Boulder Dash?