Ouch, that smarts...
Dec. 15th, 2013 05:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pheloniusfriarI was reading a Wikipedia article on the Space Shuttle programme and it had this quote (referring to how things would have turned out if the Space Shuttle programme had not been embarked upon):
If we had done all this, we would be on Mars today, not writing about it as a subject for “the next 50 years.” We would have decades of experience operating long-duration space systems in Earth orbit, and similar decades of experience in exploring and learning to utilize the Moon. This essay on “the next 50 years” would be quite different than the one I am offering here. I think most of us will agree that it would have been a better one.
What's amazing is he wrote that article while he was still NASA Administrator... ouch!
If we had done all this, we would be on Mars today, not writing about it as a subject for “the next 50 years.” We would have decades of experience operating long-duration space systems in Earth orbit, and similar decades of experience in exploring and learning to utilize the Moon. This essay on “the next 50 years” would be quite different than the one I am offering here. I think most of us will agree that it would have been a better one.
— Michael D. Griffin, NASA AdministratorThe full article is here: Human Space Exploration: The Next 50 Years.
What's amazing is he wrote that article while he was still NASA Administrator... ouch!
