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Revitalizing NASA? A five-point plan [An article from: Space Policy]
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Author(s)J.N. Pelton
PublisherElsevier
ISBN / ASINB000PC0990
ISBN-13978B000PC0996
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This digital document is a journal article from Space Policy, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Following its early successes, NASA has taken a number of mis-steps, resulting in a loss of focus at the agency. Over-reliance on the Space Shuttle, treating it as an operational rather than an experimental vehicle, and the massive-cost-for-limited-results debacle of the ISS are chief among them, while the new and expensive Project Constellation targetting the Moon and Mars also promises little return. NASA needs to revitalize itself by pursuing missions more relevant to ordinary people-solar energy generation, planetary protection and sustainability, development of a robotically assembled Moon colony, among others-by restructuring itself and by working much more closely with industry and private entrepreneurs.
Description:
Following its early successes, NASA has taken a number of mis-steps, resulting in a loss of focus at the agency. Over-reliance on the Space Shuttle, treating it as an operational rather than an experimental vehicle, and the massive-cost-for-limited-results debacle of the ISS are chief among them, while the new and expensive Project Constellation targetting the Moon and Mars also promises little return. NASA needs to revitalize itself by pursuing missions more relevant to ordinary people-solar energy generation, planetary protection and sustainability, development of a robotically assembled Moon colony, among others-by restructuring itself and by working much more closely with industry and private entrepreneurs.
