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Glenn Wilson, RIP

Glenn Wilson has succombed to diabetes at the age of eighty two. He had a long and distinguished career in space and space policy, but I don't think that he ever realized the potential for the new space age, and remained too firmly mired in the old one for the space activist organization that he led to be effective in achieving its stated goals.

During his tenure (and mostly since) at the National Space Society, the group always tended to be too much of a NASA cheerleader, unable to conceive of any other way to get us into space, or offering a realistic roadmap of how supporting NASA's goals du jour would have any hope of getting us there. Nonetheless, he was a good man, as far as I know, with good motives, and I offer my condolences to his family and friends.

Posted by Rand Simberg at January 10, 2005 07:58 AM
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