New Staff, New Direction for NASA

Can someone tell me why it will take untill 2020 to get someone to the moon, where we have already been? Don't we know the route? Use mapquest for God's sake and let's do it already...

It's not like you can't see it, just look out the window and head toward the medium sized white thing with craters... stay away from the flaming one...

You would think this was rocket science...

New Staff, New Direction for NASA
Shake-Up Is Part of Chief's Plan to Reach for the Moon (Again)

By Guy Gugliotta
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 21, 2005; A21

In his first seven months on the job, NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin has announced the replacement of eight of the agency's 14 top career civil servants, a mass beheading seldom seen in a city where the political folks are the ones who routinely get the ax.

Griffin is getting away with it because, unlike most new agency chiefs, he is not a stranger who arrived in town with a couple of trustworthy sidekicks, a head full of big ideas and no idea how to implement them.

The ideas are big enough: Griffin seeks nothing less than the transformation of NASA from an agency focused for 25 years on the space shuttle and the international space station, to a visionary enterprise rebuilt to implement President Bush's call to return humans to the moon by 2020 and eventually send them to Mars.

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