"Getting Space Exploration Right" - Dr. Robert Zubrin

[Inat Hajduk <inathajduk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Might be old news to some but posting nevertheless. 
What I read so far seemed very accurate, clearly
stated stuff, hope you guys enjoy...

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PDF article download here: 
http://www.marssociety.org/docs/TNA08-Zubrin.pdf

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Introduction to the article from the Mars Societ
website
(http://www.marssociety.org/news/2005/0416.asp):

Washington DC Think Tank Publishes Zubrin Analysis of
Space Program

An in-depth critique of the space program and a
prescription of the radical steps necessary to make
the new Bush administration "Vision for Space
Exploration" real written by Mars Society president
Dr. Robert Zubrin has been published in the Spring
2005 edition of "The New Atlantis," the journal of the
Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC). The EPPC is a
Washington, DC science policy think tank with very
close links to the Bush administration, and several
EPPC fellows serve the White House as high level
advisors.

The Zubrin article, entitled "Getting Space
Exploration Right," includes fierce and systematic
criticism of former NASA administrator's
non-destination driven approach of (not) implementing
the president's new human space exploration policy. It
also diagnoses the source of the many debacles of the
O'Keefe administration, including the Hubble fiasco,
the Orbital Space Plane and JIMO program failures, and
the Columbia disaster. Finally, the article lays out
the technical approach needed for successful
implementation of a human Moon-Mars exploration
program.

Together with the appointment of the highly competent,
aggressive, and results oriented Dr. Mike Griffin as
new NASA administrator, the publication by the EPPC of
the Zubrin article furnishes strong evidence that the
Bush White House has made a decisive turn towards
actually implementing the new space exploration
vision. 


		
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