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• Commented on Bobby Braun's Plan To Re-charge NASA Technology

  More of the same longwinded BS studies, planning, white papers, etc. Can anyone at NASA make a decision and go with it? Instead billions are spent in meetings, travel, false starts, and endless plannnnniiiinnnnnnggggggg. Talking about leadership at NASA is...

• Commented on Nelson & Hutchison Have a "Major Breakthrough" to Announce

  I am guessing the breakthrough is saving lots of jobs in their respective states....

• Commented on More Commentary on Constellation Closeout

  Gee, articles from Houston, Huntsville, Florida, Salt Lake City, etc. Luckily this is not about jobs but what is the best long term strategy for exploration of space and advancement of science and technology. It is all about jobs and...

• Commented on Falcon 9 Development = Cost of Ares I Mobile Service Tower

  This is what happens when an organization is willing to take risks and does not have to carry a huge bloated bureaucracy along with it. NACA and NASA in its early days was like that but no more. NASA is...

• Commented on New Senate Roadblock To Obama Space Plans

  All the Congresspeople care about is jobs and protecting the companies that lobby them with cash, trips, etc. Most have no real clue what is involved and that there simply is not the technology to do extended trips to Mars...

• Commented on NRC on NASA Labs: Not A Pretty Picture

  The NRC report is spot on. This is the direct result on 10+ years of one giant NASA management f#ck up at HQ and Center levels. They also had help from OMB and Clinton and Bush WH to outsource and...

• Commented on National Lab Day

  Sort of ironic considering the NRC report on NASA facilities and labs released today. NASA has a National Lab Day while its labs are falling into further and further obsolescence after years of neglect....

• Commented on Striking a Balance on Shuttle Shut Down

  Extended shuttle flights, Orion light, etc. all just sound like more of the same political and jobs motivated decisions driving NASA. If this is what NASA has become then throw in the towel for any hope of real change and...

• Commented on NASA Procurement Pays Gourmet Prices for Hotel Snack Food

  Far too many conferences, workshops, retreats are held in a location where everyone must travel. How about holding some of these at NASA Centers? Some of this is waste, plain and simple....

• Commented on Today's Space Policy Feedback

  How much longer do we have to witness the never ending stream of politicians worried about jobs, their own? Far be it for any of them to consider, much less talk about, the possibility that the new direction may be...

• Commented on Making NASA "Open"

  NASA does not so much need to be more open as it needs to get rid of the layers of bureaucracy, management fads, and aversion to risk of any sort that have become so smothering in the past decade or...

• Commented on Obama Heads To The Space Coast

  CadetOne is right on the money. Its all about jobs and saving one's political neck. NASA long ago stopped putting technical achievement first and the HSF program is little more than a huge jobs program with little too show for...

• Commented on NASA: Time To Do More With Less, Do Less, or Do Things Differently?

  NASA needs to shed the manned space program for now and go back to doing long term high risk research in areas that support future exploration as well as aeronautics, science, etc. The current manned space program is little more...

• Commented on LaRC Management Wants To Know Why People Show Up for Work

  The real question is why does LaRC management have to ask employees what LaRC is and why they come to work. Leadership (and there must not be much if any) at LaRC should be making the strategic decisions and putting...

• Commented on New NASA Governance Structure Under Development

  Until actual leadership arrives at NASA, one is likely just to get more of the same rearranging of the deck chairs and never ending re-planning of great achievements, especially at the "research" centers. Perhaps one day someone at the top...

• Commented on TEDxNASA Live Coverage

  Hard to believe Dr. Levine is still pushing the Mars Airplane idea. It started as a PR stunt during the Goldin years and never seemed to be a credible idea since, even though some have tried to sell it as...

• Commented on Time Magazine's Best Invention of the Year

  This is sad although I am sure NASA is not taking too much time and trouble to make any corrections to the story. How is a rocket like Ares 1 a great invention when it has not yet flown???? Who...

• Commented on TEDxNASA: Details Revealed

  I have to wonder if NASA is spending already scarce dollars on this and would be curious to know if speakers are being the the non-NASA and non-NIA speakers are being paid. I am guessing this is part of the...