Why NASA's Moon Landing is the Wrong Model for Science in America
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 »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
