"Shuttle a mistake" -- Griffin

[unixronin]

NASA just got real.

The space shuttle and International Space Station — nearly the whole of the U.S. manned space program for the past three decades — were mistakes, NASA chief Michael Griffin said Tuesday.

In a meeting with USA TODAY's editorial board, Griffin said NASA lost its way in the 1970s, when the agency ended the Apollo moon missions in favor of developing the shuttle and space station, which can only orbit Earth.

"It is now commonly accepted that was not the right path," Griffin said.  "We are now trying to change the path while doing as little damage as we can."

Comments

[radarrider.livejournal.com]

<keanu>Whoa!</keanu>

[jenkitty.livejournal.com]

Icon says it all.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Now, if we could just get him to admit that the design pieces the Shuttle was based upon were also mistakes, and to toss Morton Thiokol and that old Rockwell piece of junk altogether...

Sometimes it takes a little surgery to fix a problem. Bin There, Dun That.

[otherbill.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I'm being a cynic, but I worry that these recent announcements are just another way GWBush is trying to get the media and general public's collective mind off...other things.

"My ratings are down, hmmm...hey, let's go back to the moon!"

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Isn't it only cynicism if it's not true?

[claire.livejournal.com]

And to this I say: Yay!

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

if you learn from it, it's not a mistake!

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

No, it's still a mistake. There's just mistakes you learn from and hopefully don't repeat, and mistakes you keep on repeating because you never learn from them.

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

stop that!