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The Road Ahead

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
July 4, 2011
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With the Shuttle Program Ending, Fears of Decline at NASA, NY Times
“Space experts say the best and brightest often head for the doors when rocket lines get marked for extinction, dampening morale and creating hidden threats. They call it the “Team B” effect. “The good guys see the end coming and leave,” said Albert D. Wheelon, a former aerospace executive and Central Intelligence Agency official. “You’re left with the B students.” NASA acknowledges the effect and its attendant dangers. It has taken hundreds of steps, including retention bonuses for skilled employees, new perks like travel benefits and more safety drills. Through cuts and attrition in recent years, the shuttle work force has declined to 7,000 workers from about 17,000.”
After space shuttle program, NASA’s future still bright, opinion, Waleed Abdalati and Robert Braun, Baltimore Sun
“By continuing to take on grand challenges in human spaceflight and science, NASA will catalyze America’s innovation engine and play a significant role in America’s economic recovery. By taking humans to places never before visited, by developing technologies that will serve society in broad ways, some that we cannot yet anticipate, and by empowering us to understand our world, our solar system, and our place in the universe, NASA will continue to serve our nation well into the future. The future is waiting; it’s time to claim it.”

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