...Pres. Obama Appoints former Lockheed CEO to review "Vision"!

Its not the intentions and findings that are at fault its the design
decisions and the funding which is at fault.

Brian

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Norm Augustine to Review the Vision for Space Exploration
May 12, 2009 by Mark Whittington


"Norm Augustine, retired CEO of Lockheed Martin, has been asked by
President
Barack Obama to chair a commission to study the Constellation program to
send
human explorers beyond Low Earth Orbit. Norm Augustine has done this sort
of
thing before.

Back in 1990, with George H. W. Bush's Space Exploration Initiative going
nowhere in the Congress, Norm Augustine headed a panel that issued
recommendations to get the exploration initiative jump started.

The principle recommendations for SEI were as follows:

"a science program, which enjoys highest priority within the civil space
program, and is maintained at or above the current fraction of the NASA
budget;

"a Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE) focusing on environmental measurements;

"a Mission from Planet Earth (MFPE), with the long-term goal of human
exploration of Mars, preceded by a modified Space Station which emphasizes
life-sciences, an exploration base on the moon, and robotic precursors to
Mars;

"a significantly expanded technology development activity, closely coupled
to
space mission objectives, with particular attention devoted to engines + a
robust space transportation system."

The recommendations of the first Augustine Commission were considered
sound
sensible, and even visionary."
http://www.associatedcontent.com/art... e=true&cat=15



Will the new report echo this one charied by the same Lockheed CEO?

Principal Recommendations of the Augustine Commission, 1990
http://history.nasa.gov/augustine/racfup1.htm



Jonathan


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