NASA's Rocket To Nowhere

NASA’s $10B rocket plan recycles shuttle parts, draws flak, Orlando Sentinel
“… critics are already deriding the plan as “a rocket to nowhere” that would pay billions to the aerospace industry to perpetuate the use of 30-year-old shuttle technology while further postponing resolution of a fundamental question: What’s the mission of NASA’s human-spaceflight program? “What we seem to have is a desire to spend money on rockets in the hopes that we will develop a mission one day,” said Jeff Greason, member of the 2009 presidential committee that looked at the future of U.S. human spaceflight.”