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By: Space Politics » Steve and the generals

Space Politics » Steve and the generals — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:00:36 +0000

[…] may recall a couple of weeks ago reports that the Obama Administration had narrowed down its list of candidates for NASA administrator to several,…. This afternoon the Orlando Sentinel reported who its sources say are those four. Three of the […]

By: Jeff Foust

Jeff Foust — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:55:59 +0000

The typo has been corrected. My apologies for any confusion it may have caused.

By: Donald F. Robertson

Donald F. Robertson — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:21:02 +0000

Yes, I was startled to say the least when I saw that a Representative from Florida would want an Administrator who did not support human spaceflight!

— Donald

By: Al Fansome

Al Fansome — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:29:20 +0000

Paul,

I believe you misinterpreted Jeff’s typo.

I am guessing that Jeff’s “need sot be” = “needs to be”, not “need not be”.

– Al

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:46:31 +0000

You have it wrong about Rep. Kosmas’s recommendation. She definitively and strongly recommended that the new administrator should be a supporter of manned space flight.

By: Doug Lassiter

Doug Lassiter — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:09:53 +0000

What’s the evidence that Obama is trying to “reinforce Constellation”? The Obama administration has made management assignments to keep NASA from going completely off the rails with the departure of key leadership. These people, Chris Scolese for example, have no special love for Constellation that I’ve been able to detect.

Yes, NASA is due an administrator and even perhaps a new mission, but I’m willing to cut some slack three weeks into his administration for a President who comes into office with the economic and national security worries that he faces. (Speaking of “ghosts”.) If he’s drinking anything, it sure ain’t kool-aid. If Obama wanted to make a “small deal” out of NASA, he could tell his folks to throw some patches on. But politically it would be suicide to make a “big deal” out of NASA right now, and start talking vision stuff. From a space perspective, I think we agree that the latter would be encouraging. The delay in doing it may cost some money, but so would any big changes.

By: Commenter

Commenter — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:04:47 +0000

Well, I voted for Obama, but now I’m starting to have my doubts. If he’s going to drink the kool-aid and reinforce Constellation and the present implementation of VSE, then he rightly deserves a big bronx cheer. I really was expecting more from him and his Administration.

Bush’s ghost continues to haunt us.