Ho Hum

I agree with Clark Lindsey:

I doubt that in the coming months and years I will be commenting much on Orion or the other shiny, precious projects in Mr. Griffin’s Constellation. Frankly, it all seems a bit boring. Maybe this program will successfully return the US to the Moon by 2020. There are lots of great engineers working in it and they are quite capable of making it a success. However, the price tag is far too high for far too little. I want spaceflight to become practical, useful and broadly available. That’s when it gets exciting. NASA will achieve none of these with the Constellation program. They are not even goals the agency recognizes.

I’ll miss the paycheck. I won’t miss the program (though I will miss some good people that I worked with).