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Clay Anderson: Too Honest for NASA?

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
November 14, 2011
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Astronaut confident NASA will rebound from ‘limbo’, Des Moines Register
“Clayton Anderson] said the agency needs a firm target, such as a manned mission to Mars. President Barack Obama has backed off that plan, shelving a return to the moon and instead looking at a possible asteroid visit. “We lack leadership,” Anderson said in an interview with The Des Moines Register. “We’ve had lulls like this before, but I’m not sure we’ve had many that are quite as tough as what we have now. Now, we are in a limbo state.” … Anderson said he most likely won’t fly again after getting crosswise with the current NASA brass. He had some choice words for Mission Control about space station procedures and life, and the bosses didn’t want to hear it, he said. “They told me I was too candid and blunt with Mission Control and others, and that my skill set did not match long-term space missions,” Anderson said.”

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