Dropping the Ball on the VSE

Glenn, Garn, Nelson: What Bush doesn’t know about NASA, Opinion, Orlando Sentinel

“… NASA needs additional guidance from Congress on what its future course should be. It especially needs that guidance, because this administration has thoroughly failed to provide the direction — or the funding — necessary to achieve what President Bush called for in January 2004 when he announced the Vision for Space Exploration. We can only attempt to explain why the administration has undermined the Vision for Space Exploration, though we suspect it can be explained by Bush not knowing all the facts about what the real impact of NASA’s annual budgets has been since the loss of the Columbia in 2003.”

KSC Folks: Call Paul Shawcross, earlier post

Editor’s note: The sad thing about all of this these days is that OMB’s Paul Shawcross has more say as to what happens at NASA than NASA’s Administrator does. You can yell at Mike Griffin until you are blue in the face but it is Shawcross and the OMB who calls the shots.