[Renegade]

NASA became to big and bureaucratic. The more administrators you get involved, the slower a program proceeds , and the more chance of a failure. We need to scale down the size of the entity, and zero in on one project at a time . In that type of setup projects will be completed .
We fumbled the ball by not staying with the new payload design system initiated soon after the first shuttle launch. They should have foreseen the limits of the present STS craft due to the material stresses put on the spacecraft.( or did they, and wanted this to happen for some predetermined reason ??)

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I think NASA is big enough to handle more than one program. What they need is a strategy and a mission. Searching for life just doesn't cut it. Routine access to space and a lunar base is where you focus your talent. It's a mission to build an infrastructure for space access, and where we'll learn to live in outerspace. The defense implications are obvious.