Keith’s note: Huge budget cuts will soon destroy much of NASA Science. Science either enables the technology to launch a payload or (most of the time) is the prime reason for the mission in the first place. Sometimes people tag along to make sure the Science gets done – sometimes on themselves. This may be a losing battle – but fight on we must. This cannot last forever. If you ever saw “The World According to Garp” then the second half of this scene should be an object lesson. Ad astra per scientiam
Biologist, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Biologist and Payload integrator, Editor of NASAWatch.com and Astrobiology.com, Lapsed climber, Explorer, Synaesthete, Former Challenger Center board member... More by Keith Cowing