Lori Garver Claims That NASA Is 'Wary' of Elon Musk's Mars Plans (arstechnica.com)

MarkWhittington writes: Ars Technica reports that former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver claimed, during a panel discussion at the Council for Foreign Relations, that many at NASA are "wary" of the Mars ambitions of SpaceX's Elon Musk. While the space agency has yielded low Earth operations to the commercial sector as part of the commercial crew program, it reserves for itself deep space exploration. Garver herself disagrees with that sentiment: "I thought, fundamentally, you just don’t understand. We’re not in a race in a swimming pool where everyone is racing against one another. We're in a cycling race where the government is riding point and the others are drafting behind us, and if someone comes alongside us and can pass us because they’ve found a better way, we don’t get out our tire pump and stick it between their spokes."

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Re:Of course they don't like him.

[bfpierce]

Or of course Musk could rush it, it blows up in his face and no politician will touch funding for Mars for 50 years.

We can put a man on the Moon ...

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... but we can't come up with a decent analogy. -- NASA