Why NASA's Moon Landing is the Wrong Model for Science in America

The Root by Dayo Olopade | Jul. 20, 2009 (Opinion)

The moon landing in 1969 was inspiring. But today, American scientists are better off fixing what ails planet earth.

“We are attempting to develop major new systems with ten-year technology, eight-year programs, a five year plan, three-year people, and one-year dollars,” he wrote. What’s more, large, corporate contractors dominate the federal procurement process —hiking up the costs of aerospace technology for taxpayers. The consequences of this lax management can be both embarrassing and deeply wasteful: It took engineers six costly tries to get the shuttle ... Full Story »

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by Derek Hawkins - Jul. 20, 2009

A low-hanging but effective case against space exploration in coming years.

It is a lovely story—retold at the President’s meeting with Bolden and the crew of Apollo 11. However, in the midst of a financial crisis consistently reported as ... More »

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by Glenn LaBauve - Jul. 23, 2009

While seemingly sound, it ignores the byproducts that are left in the wake of exploration, which would be lost or greatly slowed if the objective is diminished.

A good beginning, but I belive we should do the things not in place of, but in addition to. Ending the wars in Asia would leave billions every month not the chump change that is NASA,

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by Kaizar Campwala - Jul. 20, 2009

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The whys of NASA's post-lunar history

Houston Chronicle by Eric Berger | Jul. 19, 2009 (Special Report)

From NASA's view, the progression of space programs — shuttle first in 1981, followed by the space station in 1998 and finally Constellation — make sense in a universe ...

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For Mars Rover, Roadside Assistance

Wall Street Journal by Robert Lee Hotz | Jul. 20, 2009 (Special Report)

On Mars, NASA's robot rover Spirit is spinning its wheels on the soft shoulder of planetary exploration, up to its axles in silt millions of miles away from tense engineers ...

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