My first Google hit was:
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3247188.htm
You can even read it in Italian:
http://www.repubblica.it/online/scienza_e_tecnologia/nasa/nasa/nasa.html
And it's even in the New York Times
(
http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/12/tec
hnology/ebusiness/12NASA.html), so it must be true ;).
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PS I just ran a number of Google searches looking for
anything related to
Nasa wanting 8086 CPUs and I got ZERO hits.