Sorry About That Whole Shuttle and Station Thing
Speaking of USA Today, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin dropped this bomb on the paper's editorial board: It's "commonly accepted," he said, that the entire post-Apollo space program has been a giant mistake. As the story makes clear, Griffin's said this kind of thing before he took over the helm of the agency, but that doesn't cushion the shock much for me. To blithely write off 30 years of efforts costing billions of dollars and 14 astronauts lives, with an "Oops, shouldn't have gone down that road," is pretty amazing.
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