Diversification

Ian Woollard wrote:
>
> Al Globus wrote:
>
> > If Congress and the President made it clear to NASA that they were to
> > build better launch vehicles, NASA would. NASA might anyway, but it's
> > much less likely.
>
> It's not clear that NASA should. But that's just my opinion.
> NASA is not politically positioned to deliver cost-effective
> access to space, and IMO is unlikely to ever be able to do this,
> or even be able to do this.
>

NASA will become politically positioned to do anything Congress and the
President really want it to do (within certain physical constraints).
"Really want it to do" means clear direction and money.

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Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
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The dinosaurs weren't spacefaring. We are. I don't think that's an
accident. Maybe we are life's taxi to the stars.