rk wrote:

"NASA's Predicament

Published: December 31, 2005
NASA is headed into the next year with ambitious goals and no
assurance that
it will get the money needed to carry them out. With large deficits
looming
in the space shuttle accounts, there is some danger that the space agency
could work itself into a familiar corner by trying to do too much with too
little, a sure-fire recipe for disaster."


If they intend to get the ball rolling on their new CEV and heavy lifter
programs then it behooves them to ditch the Shuttle and ISS ASAP;
although that may be politically impossible.

Pat