Well what do you know? NASA agrees with me!
Several months ago I blogged about my frustration with NASA, and how I thought it was a complete waste of time & money. Well, I guess they just needed some time to see things my way, but NASA now agrees with me! Well, maybe not all of them, but at least chief administrator Michael Griffin does according to a recent interview with USA Today. (He didn’t mention me by name, but I think it’s obvious.)
Excerpts:
Asked Tuesday whether the shuttle had been a mistake, Griffin said, “My opinion is that it was. … It was a design which was extremely aggressive and just barely possible.” Asked whether the space station had been a mistake, he said, “Had the decision been mine, we would not have built the space station we’re building in the orbit we’re building it in.”
Griffin has made clear in previous statements that he regards the shuttle and space station as misguided. He told the Senate earlier this year that the shuttle was “deeply flawed” and that the space station was not worth “the expense, the risk and the difficulty” of flying humans to space.
