Yet Another NASA Blue Ribbon Panel
Independent Assessment of NASA’s Strategic Direction and Management
“This proposal requests funding for the NRC’s Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences to organize an ad-hoc study to determine whether the strategic direction of NASA remains viable and if the agency’s activities and organization efficiently and effectively support that direction in light of the potential for constrained budgets in the foreseeable future. The study will be carried out by staff from the division’s Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board and Space Studies Board. The amount requested is $834,104 for the period January 15, 2012 to January 14, 2013.”
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Looks like panel number 25 in 40 years.
What, and no cents?
Isn’t it about time that government stop spending OUR money for reviews of government functions? Particularly when those reviews truly end up in the round file and prove to serve no practical or realistic purpose whatsoever?
Come on!!!
P.S. Where did they come up with that exact dollar amount? Fishy, huh! And, you know what, I am sure that they will go over their requested amount!
I’ll provide the answers for half that requested sum….
(1) Does the strategic direction of NASA remains viable?
Answer? No.
(2) Does the agency’s activities and organization efficiently and effectively support that direction
Answer? No.
please send me the check.
NASA keeps going around and around and around like Twilight Zone astronauts caught in a perpetual time loop. NASA will never truly move forward until it finally takes the next logical step by establishing a permanent human presence on the surface of the Moon.
Then its going to be astonishing how quickly similar facilities are eventually established on Mars and beyond by using what we’ve learned by living off the land on the Moon.
Marcel F. Williams
Y’all do realize this was required by the 2010 Authorization Act, right?
I like nuts and bolts,so how is the ice going to be mined?I read that it is only 2%.What kind of volume of fluffy regolith,would be required to be heated up, just to have enough to live on,let alone for rocket fuel?What is done with the tailings?Probably be easier and cheaper to bring water and reuse it.Mars though has shown from current meteorite impacts has solid ice.When the poles moved,the ice was left behind.Solid ice like at the poles now.Since it gets warmer as it goes down,which is more likely to find liquid water by drilling a well,Mars or Moon?A Moon base would be nice,but would take all our space $ for a long time,if the $ could be found.But if a Moon base could be funded and A Mars base not?
This proposed plan is perfect, if you were going to do it in 1973.
Steve