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Exploration

The Future vs. the Past

By Keith Cowing

NASA Watch

February 11, 2010

Filed under Apollo, exploration, Griffin, strickland, VSE

NASA and Space – The Future vs. the Past, John K. Strickland
“Under Admiral Craig Steidle starting early in 2004, the VSE was a forward looking program that was open to new ideas and the development of fundamentally new, innovative technology. Griffin shut the door firmly on most of those new ideas in 2005. Instead, he looked backward at what had been stolen away from him and the space community by politics 40 years ago – a continuation of the Apollo Program, and tried to re-create it as “Apollo on Steroids”.

Keith Cowing

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.