JSC Job Loss Update

Amid sadness and anger at NASA, a time for gallows humor, Houston Chronicle
“As NASA administrator Charles Bolden makes his two appearances on Capital Hill this week, it has become ever more clear that NASA’s Constellation program is going away, despite the protestations of some people in Congress. Constellation, the space program’s next generation of rockets and spacecraft, is managed at Johnson Space Center. Although the mood there is rather dour as one might expect, it is well known that geeks, myself included, respond to stress with gallows humor. And so it goes with Constellation.”
We must not discard greatest innovator in history, Walt Cunningham, Houston Chronicle
“In the place of the canceled Ares and Orion hardware, we now have increased support for education, increased spending on the discredited global warming hypocrisy and subsidies to several new commercial rocket companies. And, oh yes, don’t forget a new outreach program to Muslim countries without established space programs. In canceling Constellation with nothing to take its place, the president is saying the U.S. should not have its own human space program and is directing funds to the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, or COTS. If NASA wants to participate in human spaceflight, it will have to be through contractors.”