Tuesday, September 27, 2005

What NASA Must Do Now

I recommend a good article by Keith Cowing of the NASA Watch site on what NASA must do to gain support for its future plans in a time of fiscal difficulties.
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1068

Space exploration will never be cheap, and it will never be completely safe. Making a case to the American people that it is nevertheless worth the effort is a task NASA must face up to. Oddly, the agency, while making great strides in regaining its focus under Michael Griffin, has been paring back the kind of educational outreach efforts needed for this task. An exploration program that takes a little longer because some of the money goes to education and public involvement is far better than an exploration program that ends up being canceled for lack of public and political support.

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