White House and NASA Fight Back; Criticize Washington Post Columnist

Many op-ed pieces have been written in favor of or against NASA’s new plan. The White House and NASA have chosen to respond to the one written by Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer on February 12 wherein he concluded that the President’s plan was “closing the new frontier.”

In a letter to the editor published in today’s Post, White House Science Adviser John Holdren and NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden criticize Krauthammer, calling him “badly off target.” They defend their new NASA plan as “right for the agency, for the times and for continuing U.S. leadership in space.” Holdren is scheduled to testify to the House Science and Technology Committee on February 24 about the federal R&D budget request; Bolden on February 25 on the NASA budget request. See our calendar on the right menu for details.