John Logsdon
John Logsdon
John Logsdon is the founder and from 1987–2008 was the Director of the Space Policy Institute at The George Washington University...
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The emphasis is on achieving goals rather than elegance, ... It has several elements to it. One is to say that the people who did Apollo were pretty smart.
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You might tap an initial pool of people with lots of money and nothing better to do,
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I'm not sure this is a hobby for him. I think this is his next big idea.
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It is clear that the White House has made a policy decision that we are going to honor our international agreements on ISS, and we are going to continue to fly the shuttle in order to launch the international components.
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The emphasis is on achieving goals rather than elegance.
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The fact that it comes at a particularly inopportune moment is unfortunate, but either we are serious about long-term commitments like this or not. Nobody is asking for more money. Apollo was done as a warlike mobilization of national resources and there's no reason to do that now.