A response to Charles Krauthammer, from the science advisor and NASA administrator. As Jim Oberg notes in email, they don’t say that his op-ed is off base– they say that he is (i.e., a slightly more personal attack). This is highly unusual. Are they going to go after Tom Jones, too?
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“As the blue-ribbon Augustine Committee concluded last year, the Bush plan, not the Obama plan, would have left the United States a loser in space.”
Bolden adds to the confusion by referring to the Exploration Architecture as the “Bush plan”, which is accurate only in that Bush and Marburger trusted Griffin too much, or stopped caring enough to change his course.
Bolden adds to the confusion by referring to the Exploration Architecture as the “Bush plan”, which is accurate only in that Bush and Marburger trusted Griffin too much, or stopped caring enough to change his course.
I think that’s enough to call it the Bush plan. The buck stops in the Oval Office. And I don’t think that Marburger had much clout.
Bolden comes off looking like a typical partisan hack with this screed. I had expected (hoped for) much more out of a fellow with his background than this…
Somehow, I am beginning to doubt that this “new plan” will bear any fruit. Why should we place our trust in people who have shown themselves over and over to be spectacularly untrustworthy?
Griffin erred by commission, and Bush by omission. But yes, Bush is ultimately to blame. Had he cared at all about the program, he would have yanked Griffin’s leash.
Granted, NASA is right and Krauthammer is wrong on this one. The real question is though, should the Agency really be in the business of going after people who disagree with it? I mean this smells like a political move, something an agency dedicated to technological research and space exploration shouldn’t be engaging in.