Wednesday, November 16, 2005
BLURRY VISION
Kicked off during the funding aftermath of the hurricane season and at the nadir of the Bush Administration's public approval ratings, NASA's new vision, the Exploration Systems Architecture Study (ESAS), has received a tepid response from the space enthusiast community and its unveiling went virtually unnoticed by the mainstream media and the public at large. All of these are very bad signs that the younger Bush's space initiative may go the way of the one put forward by the elder Bush -- i.e. a silent death of neglect as it was superceded by other priorities.
Here's a good round-up of the reaction to the ESAS by the space advocacy community. For those who long for humanity to become a real space-faring species and the US to become a real space-faring nation, this is bad news. The people who most want to make this succeed can't be rallied around the cause, when lots of otgher people can't see the relevance.
I'm not hopeful.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 11:15 AM
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