« U.S. has more science smarts - sort of | News Picks home | Is the U.S. Near a Tipping Point on Global Warming? »

Opinion: Why we will try not to make the same mistakes again with space hardware

The New York Times: After years of spending our nation’s space budget building an orbiting space station of questionable utility, serviced by an operationally expensive space shuttle of unsafe design, NASA has set a new direction for the future of human spaceflight. Once again, we have our sights on the Moon ... and beyond. We are finally, bodily, going to make our way into space, this time to stay.

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://blogs.physicstoday.org/mt/mt-tb.cgi/1223

Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)

Before submitting your comment, please enter the security code displayed below; this prevents spambots from hijacking The News Picks blog. (If you submit a comment without entering the security code, you will see a "Comment Submission Error" message; please use your back button to go back, enter the code, and re-submit your comment).



COMPANY SPOTLIGHT