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Editorial : Dropping the Ball

T he U.S. government has been gambling with the Landsat satellite program for years, first waffling about whether to build another dedicated satellite, then banking on a dubious privatization scheme that met no one’s goals. The one thing that has not taken place is realistic planning and budgeting to avoid breaking a flow of data that has chronicled three decades of change to the Earth’s land mass.

by SpaceNews Editor
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Bush Taps Griffin To Lead NASA, Implement Exploration Vision

The White House reached back into NASA’s past to pick the man they want to fulfill U.S. President George Bush’s vision for renewed human exploration beyond Earth orbit, selecting Michael Griffin, the man who led the agency’s exploration effort during the first Bush administration. Griffin, who currently heads the space department at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), is a rocket scientist with an MBA and a veteran aerospace executive who has held a variety of senior-level positions at the Pentagon, NASA and in industry.

by Brian Berger
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Then and Now in Aerospace

The title of a motion picture a few years back, ” Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,” is an apt metaphor for what has taken place in the aerospace industry over the last three decades. On several levels, it spells trouble for future grand achievements in space exploration on the scale of the Apollo Moon program.

by Edward Hujsak