Constellation: Sloppy Birth of a Dead Project
There are space fans out there who’re unhappy with the cancellation of the Constellation program, but I’m not one of them. Here’s an account at HobbySpace of how its inception was botched…by self-interest and cronyism, sounds like.
And Transterrestrial’s one-word subject on this post succinctly captures the midset of a key congressional committee’s chairperson. Clearly the advantages of private sector investing their own money and competition is is completely opaque to the supergenius big brains who’ve somehow landed in the US government.
It’s time for NASA to back out. Space cannot be left to the modern equivalent of the WPA.
Ares, Constellation, NASA | bshears February 17, 2010
