Florida: No Space Pork Here (Update)
NASA cost, denial key to saving space program, Florida Today
“Perhaps the single biggest threat to the nation’s space program in the next decade is the repeated, rampant multi-billion dollar cost overruns that plague big NASA projects. The senior leaders of NASA and its big contractors repeatedly deliver projects billions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule. And to add insult to taxpayers’ injury, they revise history to obscure the truth. The James Webb Space Telescope, the scientifically important successor to Hubble Space Telescope, is going to somehow get support from Congress despite its explosive price tag, well documented mismanagement and half-decade launch delay.”
Keith’s note: “Rampant multi-billion dollar cost overruns”? Hmmm … Sounds like Constellation to me – and what SLS risks becoming given the murkiness regarding NASA’s support and inadequate budgetary resources. But wait – CxP and SLS = jobs for Florida Today readers. As such, only Webb Space Telescope is painted as a threat in this regard – not SLS.
– Large NASA Programs: Located In Florida = “Jobs”, Out of State = “Boondoggle, Pork”, earlier post
– Florida: No Space Pork Here – Only In Virginia, earlier post
– NASA Money Sponge Update, earlier post