NASA's most important resource-even beyond the budget Congress provides-is its people, scientists, engineers and technicians who make our nation's space program possible, whether they work directly for NASA or not. And our biggest threat today, our biggest management challenge, concerns those people. Space shuttle retirement and transition to a new system is an upheaval that occurs not even as often as once in a generation. We are trying to manage this challenge as best we can with the resources we have been given. We are all concerned that we not repeat the mistakes of the 1970s in the transition from the Apollo to shuttle programs. What was planned as a 2-year gap in human spaceflight turned into 6. Because we did not sustain the commitment (which had been made in the 1960s) because real-dollar funding in the post-Apollo years was so severely reduced, there was an exodus of talent from the program, squandering national capability and weakening the industrial base. We must not allow that to happen again. We must commit ourselves, as a nation, to the space enterprise. We must commit to leadership, not followership, in space exploration. It matters.
Then and Now: Fifty Years in Space
2008
14 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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