Preemptive Pandering by the Ares Program

NASA as Minderbinder? “It Takes a Nation to Build a Rocket”, Orlando Sentinel

“The day the “It Takes a Nation to Build a Rocket” notice first went up earlier this month it was accompanied by 22 press releases targeted to different states, trumpeting that there were companies in their towns and cities working on Constellation’s Ares I rocket. “It’s blatant pandering,” said one Washington space advocate when he saw the wave of releases. “Obviously they are worried the next president might not want to continue with the project and want to show that there are already many stakeholders.”

NASA PAO Wants Everyone To Know Who Pays The Bills Back Home, earlier post