Looking Backward – Not Forward

House panel vows to save Constellation, Orlando Sentinel
“To emphasize its doubt, the subcommittee asked Thomas Young, a former Lockheed Martin executive, to testify. He flatly told the committee that the White House plan was untenable and said that NASA should not rely on commercial rockets to transport astronauts. “In my view, this is a risk too high and not a responsible course. The commercial crew option should not be approved,” he said, adding that the best policy would continue a longstanding partnership between NASA and the aerospace industry because the U.S. needs NASA’s space expertise.”
Keith’s note: As I Twittered yesterday: “Tom Young has his gaze firmly affixed on the past not the future and thinks of ways of how not to do things rather than how to do them. FAIL”