The Failuof NASA: And A Way Out

Interesting article. My main objection is that placing ACCESS at JSC
will perpetuate the current culture, which is what the author most
wants to change. Better to put ACCESS in some truly new location.

One point he did not make, is the Reagan pushed through the ISS because
he believed the fantasy that the shuttle was an operation system. You
can't fool mother nature and we have paid the price.

On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 05:01 PM, Ed Minchau wrote:

> The Failure of NASA: And A Way Out
> by Philip K. Chapman
>
> I was in Mission Control when Neil Armstrong announced that the Eagle
> had landed. The applause was unexpectedly muted as we were all
> overwhelmed by the significance of the moment. Nobody had any doubt
> that
> Tranquility Base was the first step in an expansion into space that
> would drive human progress for centuries to come.
>
> We had of course all seen the 1968 Kubrick/Clarke movie 2001: A Space
> Odyssey, and the facilities depicted there seemed entirely
> reasonable.
> In our lifetimes, we expected to see hotels in orbit, translunar
> shuttles operated by commercial airlines, and settlements on the
> Moon.
> Only the alien monolith was questionable.
>
> None of this has happened.
>
> For the rest of this article see:
> http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-03zn1.html
>
> Questions.
>

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Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html

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