To no one’s surprise, the Senate today confirmed Shana Dale as NASA deputy administrator. Griffin: “With Shana coming on board, I’m confident we now have the right leadership team to guide the agency as we move forward in the next great era of space exploration.” And with concerns about budget shortfalls, the implementation of the ESAS, and the fate of the shuttle and station, Griffin will need all the help he can get.
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I think the public space sector is a train wreck in slow motion. Neither the civil or military side of things is healthy, and both have programs destined for cuts in order to fund other federal-sized nightmares.
Just two weeks after the original Bush VSE speech, the much-maligned Alex Roland predicted that it would turn human spaceflight at NASA into a train wreck in slow motion. It is coming to pass.