Reply #2: Here's another good quote from the Senate hearing that invited Armstrong's testimony..

[Wilms]

“It would be a disservice to NASA and to this nation to yet again initiate a space program where the means do not match the ends. Doing so merely guarantees that we will be meeting here still another time five to ten years hence. It is one thing to preserve jobs…it is another to conduct a space program. In this case, the former is easy…the latter is difficult.”

Mr. Norman R. Augustine, Chairman, Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee

http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=35e2339c-7d93-4785-b02f-7658a5e08bb5


Hard to imagine a program more troubled than the Constellation. OK. The shuttle.

But Armstrong is right. Actually, claiming the President is ill-advised is sortof self-evident.

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