How will all of this affect other agencies?

01/16/04 00:00:00    

By Michael Mealling

It seems a few outlets are picking up Rick's latest. One thing that this release made me think about was that all of the material we've been seeing so far is strictly about NASA: NASA budgets, NASA reorganizations, NASA goals, etc. But that can't be the limitation of where the President's 'vision thang' stops, can it? Given that the President made it clear that the DoD would be playing a much larger role in this new vision, I can't imagine that he's going to leave the other space related policies untouched. Specifically, what changes will there be to AST, the Commerce Department, NOAA, etc. Maybe the answer to Rick's question won't be something that's part of NASA's mission, but a combination of missions given across the government. I'm not going to hold my breath, but it will be interesting to see how the President's vision will affect other government agencies.