        Source: NASA  Comments     Threshold   RE: Just what we
need By US56 on 2/27/2013 11:25:59 AM , Rating: 2 Bolden's
statement seems to suggest that they are establishing something
analogous to DARPA within the DoD but in all likelihood it's
just another funding channel to let the bureaucratic fun and
games continue and give the appearance that they are doing
something while not accomplishing much. The U.S. manned space
program went off the rails during the Nixon administration. They
shoved von Braun aside because he objected too strenuously to
the premature termination of Project Apollo, a political
embarrassment to the administration, and then made himself a
further annoyance when he backed an alternative to the
clunky/kludgie Space Shuttle vehicle architecture which ended up
killing two astronaut crews and destroying two $1B+ orbiters.
That architecture was essentially designed by an economist
working as a consultant to the OMB in the Nixon administration
using unrealistic flight rate predictions pro