There is a debate going on about our nation’s space exploration program. Where should we go? What rockets should we build? Can we do it for less money? These are questions to which U.S. President Barack Obama has asked the Augustine Commission, a panel led by former Lockheed Martin Chief Executive Norman Augustine, to provide answers. Since these questions are not new, and the realities of program management and physics, have not changed in the five years since NASA’s Exploration Program was initiated, the answers to these questions are quite predictable:
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