Goldin to Retire from NASA

nervesmiffs writes: "Lots of people hated him. I believe he has been one of the truly great leaders of our time. He has completely turned NASA around during his 10 year tenure. Here's the retirement story." So if you were NASA's next director, what would you do with the agency? Men on Mars? Probes on Europa? Trans-warp drives?

Comments

Re:New NASA?

[geekoid]

you're statement is ignorant beyond belief.

Re:To the moon, ALICE

[cryptochrome]

Oh yeah, I almost forgot... I want it to be big enough and visible enough so it can be seen from the earth, so that every time anyone that despises the United States and the rest of the free world looks up at the moon, they know just how far they are below us.

Plus we'd have a mass driver for launching items into space from the moon (it's easy in 1/6th-g and no atmosphere, and we'd need it for it to be a useful colony) which would probably be great for dropping rocks anywhere on earth, if we felt like it... ahahha

Accomplishment

[PRickard]

In 10 years, NASA went from being a waste of money with little purpose to being a waste of money with no purpose. Now instead of sending up shuttles for no good reason on a weekly basis, they build multi-million dollar probes and explode them in the atmospheres of planets millions of miles away. The other bureaucrats must be extremely proud of Mr. Goldin.

If NASA isn't going to do something useful like send a human to mars or enhance military defense, shut it down. Let the FAA or military handle regulations over space flight and end the pointless experiments that result in no new information beyond "computer enhanced" photos of objects that probably look nothing like what we end up seeing