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NASA: Looking Back And Looking Forward

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
January 2, 2012
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Annus Horribilis: Space in 2011, Paul Spudis, Air & Space
“In other exciting developments, the agency announced their new “mission statement” – “To reach for new heights and reveal the unknown so that what we do and learn will benefit all humankind.” Some noted the new statement says nothing about conducting missions and doesn’t mention space. But it is stirring – a mission statement for an agency without a mission.”

Keith Cowing

NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.

4 responses to “NASA: Looking Back And Looking Forward”

  1. JimVL says:
    January 4, 2012 at 2:47 pm
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    I thought it was interesting that in a year end review on NBC News by Brian Williams over the weekend, he identified the new Chinese goal of landing on the moon just as the US manned space program comes to an end. He characterized it as the torch having been passed from the great nation of the twentieth century to the great nation of the twenty-first.

  2. John Gardi says:
    January 4, 2012 at 10:56 pm
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    Paul:

    Annus horribilis for NASA, you say? Hardly!

    http://pic.twitter.com/xv7m…

    tinker

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