Just checking in from London Towne (literally–I just checked in to my hotel). It’s noon here, early in the US, but not so early that my TCSDaily piece isn’t up. I have some thoughts on Lisa Nowak, and NASA.
I’m having dinner with Perry De Havilland tonight, and then off on the train to Brussels on the morrow.
I’m flying to Europe this afternoon to deal with a family situation. I’m taking my computer, but I don’t know how much time, or Internet access I’ll have, so I may be out of touch for a while. I do plan to be back Tuesday night, though.
Of an old story: waste, fraud and abuse at the National Reconnaissance Office.
Unfortunately, as the article points out, it’s very hard to oversee a program as secret as this one. I think that we actually need to scrap the agency and start over from scratch with some fresh thinking, which would include responsive space, rather than the fragile and vulnerable battlestar galacticas, such as the Keyhole series.
While I agree with Don Imus that there’s “something wrong with” Chris Matthews, I’m amused to see that no one pointed out the obvious. Imus isn’t upset about the F-bomb on his show. He’s upset because he owns a ranch.
And I love this:
Imus: “If you were on
While the New York Times (unlike most of the media), manages to actually criticize Edwards’ choice of campaign bloggers, it can’t resist bashing bloggers (or, as I now prefer, bloggists):
Two bloggers hired by John Edwards to reach out to liberals in the online world have landed his presidential campaign in hot water for doing what bloggers do
Ted Haggard says that he now realizes that he’s completely heterosexual. Guess he’s just one of those complete heterosexuals who likes to get in on with guys occasionally.
…about Joe Wilson’s trip to Niger.
Dan Schmelzer has a breakdown. As I suspected, financing rounds are early progress milestones. For RpK, its second one is coming up this month. I assume that they have until the end of the month to meet it.
[Late morning update]
I just realized that my first sentence could be misinterpreted. I mean he has a breakdown of the COTS documents. I didn’t mean to cast aspersions on his mental health, which (unlike, apparently, Lisa Nowak) I trust is fine.
Lots more budget discussion over at Space Politics today.
As I noted yesterday, I think that this is the biggest problem with ESAS:
Griffin will be gone in January 2009. He needs to put his overall strategy in place
Alan Boyle has a roundup of thoughts over Mrs. Nowack’s escapades. And he beats me to the punch on the article title–guess I’ll have to come up with a new one.