Re: Versions of the Vision

From: Rusty (reuben_barton_at_no.spam.yah00.c0m)
Date: 03/13/05 

Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 12:27:21 -0800

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:41:12 GMT, Monte Davis
<monte.davis@verizon.net> wrote:

>As noted on NASA Watch ("Bud Cramer Doesn't Waste Any Time"):
>
>***
>Huntsville Times
>
>WASHINGTON - President Bush on Friday picked Johns Hopkins University
>physicist Michael D. Griffin to head the National Aeronautics and
>Space Administration.
>
>By Friday afternoon, U.S. Rep. Bud Cramer, D-Huntsville, was bending
>the new administrator's ear on behalf of Huntsville's Marshall Space
>Flight Center.
>
>"I welcomed him to the position and quickly reminded him that we've
>got some tough issues that we need to settle with regard to Marshall
>and with regard to programs that will fulfill the president's vision
>to return to the moon and on to Mars," Cramer said.
>
>Published reports say from 148 to 800 employees might be cut from the
>2,700-employee Marshall work force over the next couple of years.
>Cramer said he wants Griffin to work closely with Congress in drafting
>a plan for NASA's future...
>
>***
>
>Given DC protocol, who wants to bet Griffin hadn't already taken calls
>from Sen. Hutchinson (R-JSC) and Sen. Nelson (D-KSFC) about their
>hopes for space?
>
>Alas, poor Lyndon... he woulda loved every log-rolling, pork-barreling
>minute of the show.

Just like last time (1969), the road to the moon is paved with pork.

Rusty

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