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In certain cases, Kent Peterson KC-0DGY tells us about the particularly high cost of a set of antenna woes facing one NASA deep space station right now. The US Space Agency NASA is facing a repair bill of between $4.1 and $4.6 million for deep space station 14, its 70 meter RF antenna near Barso, California, all because of what has found to be inadequate procedures and inadequate training of workers. A reporter recently released by the agency said that its investigation found a number of primary causes including human error, weaknesses in software and an undetected failure in the antenna's hydro-emature radio news line will continue in 20 seconds.