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The Continuing Space Policy Failure

John Logsdon is concerned about Congress’s seeming lack of urgency about Commercial Crew:

“We on the Columbia board in 2003 called the lack of a replacement for the shuttle a failure of national leadership, and that failure continues, as exemplified by the congressional unwillingness to adequately fund commercial crew,” he explained. “Congress seems to view it not as an urgent issue, which is very puzzling to me.”

Really? It’s “puzzling” to you? It puzzles me not at all. It just says that pork is more important than success in space, as has been the case for four decades.