Two "No" Votes for NASA's New Plan
If nothing else, President Obama’s new plan for NASA has generated a lot of interest on the editorial pages of leading media outlets and elsewhere. Two definite “no” votes are from Harrison Schmitt and Charles Krauthammer.
Schmitt is the only scientist (Ph.D., geology) to walk on the Moon and a former U.S. Senator. A Republican, he hopes this year’s elections will change NASA’s course: “American leadership absent from space? Is this the future we wish for our progeny? I think not. Again, the 2010 elections offer the way to get back on the right track.”
Schmitt chaired the NASA Advisory Council during most of the time that Mike Griffin was NASA Administrator so his support for Griffin’s Constellation program is not surprising. The other op-ed is by Washington Post columnist Krauthammer (M.D., psychiatry). A critic of President Obama, he minces no words in opposing the plan: “Fifty years ago, Kennedy opened the New Frontier. Obama has just shut it.”
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