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Thursday, 26 May 2011

Harrison Schmitt is right for all the wrong reasons.

Posted on 06:14 by hony
Some of my most loyal readers know that I have a particularly juicy bone that I love to chew on called NASA. For the more recent visitors here, please do this Google search for "The Abstracted Engineer" and "NASA." Or you can read this smarmy post.

You can imagine my delight, after former astronauts lined up to defend NASA, that one astronaut totally agrees with me that the best way to practice fiscal conservatism and also make progress into deep space would be to just ax NASA completely and form a new NASA. I called this plan "NASA 2.0" He calls it NSEA, or the National Space Exploration Agency.

And while I am glad to see that people are coming around to the idea that NASA is best funded as a museum centerpiece...I have to take Schmitt's plan with a grain of salt. He wants to abolish NASA, form the NSEA, and...sigh...go back to the moon as soon as possible. To...sigh...keep it out of the hands of the evil Chinese...


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