To: bonesmccoy
No, NASA is paralyzed by bureacratic infighting and politcization of the agency. We can do just about anything we want. The problem is that everyone at the upper levels is fighting over what we're gonna do, so basically nothing gets done.
77 posted on
10/16/2003 6:02:39 AM PDT by
Bryan24
To: Bryan24
You're right, but you're wrong. Yes, the (high-level) bureacratic garbage is strangling prospects for real accomplishment, no doubt about it. I've been working in the JSC environment for nigh on a decade now, and I've seen some crap filter through in that time.
"We can do just about anything we want."
Yes, but what we want to do we can do in about 5 to 10 years from today, if our institutional hangover cleared.
China did it yesterday.
It does not matter what we did 42 years ago - It matters what we can do now, and what we can do in the future. All other perspectives are, as it has been said, Whistling Past The Graveyard.
78 posted on
10/16/2003 7:28:20 AM PDT by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: Bryan24
Infighting within the mid-management of NASA is not the cause of NASA's lack of direction.
Congress and the White House set the direction for NASA.
We haven't had direction for NASA in 10 years.
81 posted on
10/16/2003 8:12:21 AM PDT by
bonesmccoy
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