NASA Chief says Shuttle was a mistake.

[Actuary321]

USA Today Article

The space shuttle and International Space Station — nearly the whole of the U.S. manned space program for the past three decades — were mistakes, NASA chief Michael Griffin said Tuesday.

Does someone finally get it?

[2pac Shakur]

How long has Michael Griffith been at that position?

[Griffin 8]

Originally Posted by Actuary321

Does someone finally get it?

No, they're finally admitting it. I'm sure they got it long ago.

[2pac Shakur]

Easy explanation.
It's in PNAC.

[IAm@Work.com]

Now if they would only admit that manned space flight is a mistake, we will finally be getting somewhere.

[Pseudolus]

He's good on what's been bad, but then there's this:

Only now is the nation's space program getting back on track, Griffin said. He announced last week that NASA aims to send astronauts back to the moon in 2018 in a spacecraft that would look like the Apollo capsule.

Redoing Apollo is not a step in the right direction. Putting men on another world once to be able to say that we did it is one thing. But why do it again?

[Moe Szyslak]

Originally Posted by Pseudolus

He's good on what's been bad, but then there's this:Redoing Apollo is not a step in the right direction. Putting men on another world once to be able to say that we did it is one thing. But why do it again?

Because your buddy in the white house is the one who wants it.

[Griffin 8]

Originally Posted by Moe.

Because your buddy in the white house is the one who wants it.

Then I say we should do it.

[Moe Szyslak]

Originally Posted by Griffin 8

Then I say we should do it.

Your loyalty is outstanding. I am surpised you don't have a job in the administration.

[MountainHawk]

Originally Posted by Pseudolus

Putting men on another world once to be able to say that we did it is one thing. But why do it again?

Because there is only so much time left for Earth as a habitable planet , so we need to move onto Mars and just use the Earth as a supply depot.