My Overall View Of The Report
06/16/04 00:00:00
By Michael Mealling
Ok, I've skimmed and read most of it and here's my take. I think that the report is good for the most part. There are a lot of details left unsaid that could really be used to completely derail what the commission is trying to get at. There's just to much wiggle room in the wording on what the private/public partnership should be. And that suggests to me that much of this report can really get mutilated in the political process unless the President understands what the Commission was getting at.
So am I behind this? Yes. But I could change my mind if things look like their going south. Especially if it looks as though the “space industry” verbage is used to simply transfer money to existing contractors. I was hoping for something that could be used as a bat, instead I got an inflatable toy bat. But still a bat.
So, you should go read the entire thing. I'll be commenting more on it as the week progresses and we get reaction to it.
Public reaction:
Transterrestrial Musings thread on the report
Information free O'Keefe statement
CNN: White House receives space vision report
Wired: Commission: NASA Needs to Change (this one has some commentary so it appears they had a reporter at the press conference)
comments powered by Disqus