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Thoughts on Marburger's Speech

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
March 9, 2008

Marburger’s Speech, Selenian Boondocks

“For a short duration before Griffin got in as NASA’s Administrator, NASA was actually acting in a way to more fully fulfill mandate to “promote commercial as well as international participation “to further U.S. scientific, security, and economic interests.” Under the guidance of O’Keefe and Steidle, NASA setup several billion dollars worth of “Human and Robotic Technologies” research to help develop and field the technologies that would allow it to more effectively achieve its exploration goals. It was set to operate its exploration architecture in a way to leverage to the maximum extent possible existing and future commercial capabilities. To act as though NASA can’t do that is to ignore the fact that that was its very plan up until Griffin took the reigns.”

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