Saturday, October 22, 2005

NASA shake-up part of strategy to revisit moon





"To do this, you do need to be a rocket scientist," Griffin said. "The managers we had in place were not in my judgment what we needed for the change of direction we wanted to take."


It's almost surreal to see NASA mutate -- and kind of exciting, even though I know damned well the Moon-Mars initiative is about space militarization.

1 comment:

The Odd Emperor said...

We’re in a space race again boys and girls, I for one am happy to see it. But, it’s going to be about militarizing space first and science second. The first country that can set up a manned station and a few million dollars in hardware will have a weapons platform more potent than a brace of peacekeeper missiles. The Chinese are probably less than twenty years from doing that.

Of course, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was one of my favorite novels growing up.