[Cincinatus' Wife]

Space.com NASA Chief Says Agency Must Revamp Organization to Reach Moon, Mars

Orlando Sentinel Space panel gives nod to NASA's proposals

Florida Today Track record hinders moon plan

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-2004- the Year of Returning to Space--

[hopespringseternal]

I doubt the biggest problem will ever be addressed: The overall stagnation of the space business, especially the launcher industry. Forty years on, they are still doing things the same way with the same mentality.

They are mired in a static, bureaucratic mindset that simply can't imagine anything outside of their own little fiefdom.

If NASA is to be saved, solutions will have to come from outside of NASA and the government contractor community.

[AQGeiger]

I spent two summers in college working as a research assistant at NASA/ Kennedy Space Center. I came out of that experience determined to leave my former field of study for medicine.

The amount of intellectual stagnation at NASA, at least among the civil servant employees (I didn't spend too much time with civilian contractors), is incredible. There's really no motivation to get anything done. All people care about is making up acronyms and other terms that look good on paper in order to hide the fact that nothing is being accomplished.

I very highly doubt that NASA will ever reach the moon again, much less Mars.

[CasearianDaoist]

The changes envisioned by the panel would transform NASA into an agency working alongside an industrial partner, academia and parts of other Cabinet-level agencies to expand the nation's economy into space as a means of creating new wealth and strengthening national security as well as advancing science.

Music to my ears.