NASA Lost its Way
2 Apr 2010, 18:19 UTC
As we survey the wreckage and ruin of yet another NASA “return to the Moon” program, the inevitable “what went wrong?” arguments play out. We’re in a much different place today than we were when Apollo 11 reached the Moon (and each year there are fewer of us alive who witnessed it). To some of [...]
From the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Not in my lifetime. And probably, not in yours either.
As we survey the wreckage and ruin of yet another NASA “return to the Moon” program, the inevitable “what went wrong?” arguments play out. We’re in a much different place today than we were when Apollo 11 reached the Moon (and each year there are fewer of us alive who witnessed it). To some of us, this is not a new movie – we’ve been to this show many times before. Although some aspects of the experience convey a startling sense of déjà vu, in other respects, this time it was a very different event. While one could rightly blame previous unsuccessful efforts on politics, this time a different culprit brought us to the tipping point.
Our efforts to return people to the Moon after Apollo came ...
