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Obama Taps Charles Bolden To Lead NASA
viyh notes that President Obama has named former astronaut Charles F. Bolden Jr. as NASA administrator. Obama's campaign space adviser, Lori Garver, will be Bolden's deputy. Bolden flew four shuttle missions, two as commander, as well as 100 combat missions over Viet Nam. If confirmed, Bolden will take over an agency uncertain of its direction. The shuttle Atlantis's landing will mark the end of the servicing era — it was the last planned mission to repair any satellite. Some inside the agency are less than happy about how NASA's future looks from here.
America became a world superpower (in part) because it's not afraid to fund such things. I would rather have the government triple NASA's budget rather than buy a couple more golf balls for GM execs...
USA became the superpower because it's letting companies blossom and people use their potential to chase their dreams. As a consequence of that, USA had the manpower, knowledge and resources to shoot for the moon and deliver the glory days.
Government and public money funded organizations do not deliver. Money is "free" for them. What they are good at is wasting money and doing incredibly stupid decisions. It's politics at it's worst.