Keith’s note: Hooray the new NASA Strategic Plan is online! Alas, these NASA “Strategic Plans” are neither “Strategic” or a “Plan”. Yet NASA feels compelled to issue them – sometimes as a result of Congressional language – or perhaps to appease those who say that NASA does not have a strategic plan. In reality, what NASA does is look at all the things it is doing – whether they decided to do them – or Congress ordered them to do – or the White House told them do do – or things that have no precise origin or rationale – or just things that need to be kept alive to calm the worries of some stakeholder or big aerospace company. They then work backwards from that disorganized collection of things and come up with an outline – with officially-looking numbered sections – that makes it all look like this is the result of some centralized, logical, “strategic” thinking or “planning”. Alas, there is none of that going on. More below.
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“NASA Strategic Plan”