Sean O'Keefe named as NASA Administrator

>
> > I don't really know, but my suspicion is that
> there is no silver bullet
> > that will suddenly make everything sweetness and
> light with respect to ISS
> > Alpha. It will be a long hard struggle between
> goals and budgets,
> > between things that people want and that which
> Congress and the
> > Administration are willing to fund. Expectations
> for the new
> > administrator may be higher than what he can
> deliver.
>
> They always are. My impression of all the
> administrators is that it
> is their job to spend money in the politically
> identified ways;
> pork barrel politics all the way, i.e. they are
> puppets
>
> > By the way, in the last few weeks, some of
> Goldin's statements that I've
> > read have been right on target. He's called for
> the full privatization
> > of the shuttle fleet. I don't know whether
> that's a new opinion of his
> > --- perhaps his tongue is looser now that his exit
> is in sight --- or
> > whether he's said that before, but sounds good to
> me!
>
> Probably he wanted to do it before, but couldn't due
> to political
> pressure. They can't sack him now...
>
> The Space Shuttle has, at best, been outcompeted by
> the other
> systems around. Perhaps private industry could
> improve it, but most
> likely it would make a loss.
>
> Instead, probably the deal will be that whoever buys
> it will get a
> huge, guaranteed contract from the defense industry
> (i.e.
> government) for a few years, and then that will dry
> up, and the
> government will get out of having to close it down;
> the 'evil
> private company' will do it for them.
>
> > Ron
> > ******
> >
> > "Mark Collins" markac_99@...
> > 11/14/01 02:44 AM
> >
> named as NASA Administrator
> >
> > Sean O'Keefe is to be named as the new NASA
> administrator. Here is a
> > link to an article at space.com:-
> >
> > http://www.space.com/news/nasa_admin_011113.html
> >
> > Any comments anybody??
> >
> > Mark Collins
> >
> --
> - Ian Woollard (ian.woollard@...
>
> "Is a planetary surface the right place for an
> expanding
> technological civilization?"
> - Gerard O'Neill
>
You are right on the button.after trying to find a job
at ksc i finally worked my way in. what i thought was
going to be a high tech plant , but old procedures
used since early launch history.
see ya beachcop51503