NASA Upper Management Needs More Flexibility

[stickmaker]

The National Reconnaissance Office recently gave two very good but incomplete satellites with large telescopes to NASA. Which is trying very hard to ignore the gifts, because their operational plan has no place for them:

http://nasawatch.com/archives/2012/06/these-are-not-t.html

This is the same management by flowchart which cost us _Columbia_. These are valuable assets which could do important and useful science. They could even be a good stopgap substitute if something happens to Hubble before the over budget and behind schedule James Webb Space Telescope is finally launched.

Come on, NASA! You used to be good at improvising.

Comments

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Blog in haste, repent at leisure.

I will try to change the heading, or maybe just delete this whole topic.

I partly blame the people I was reading for not going into the details on what was actually done by NASA in re. those two satellites, and myself for not checking a wider range of sources.

I certainly never meant to insult any of the fine engineers, scientists and technicians at NASA who do more with less than anyone should have to. I have read several things NASA's upper management has done lately which I disagree with and it just boiled over.