05-December-2008, 12:59 AM
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Order of Kilopi
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 13,458
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Originally Posted by 01101001
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Related: BA Blog: Followup on MSL: Griffin’s spin
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[...] NASA Admin Mike Griffin was asked about NASA’s endemic cost overruns, specifically the cost of the James Webb Space Telescope, an ambitious successor to Hubble.
Griffin’s response to this made my jaw drop: he said that JWST is not suffering cost overruns, and in fact "in no way" could you say it is over budget.
Griffin is so overwhelmingly wrong in that statement that I have to say that at best this is incredible spin on his part.
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NASA, here’s my advice; make of it what you will: don’t exaggerate. Don’t spin, don’t fold, don’t mutilate. Give it to us straight. Make sure the budgets you present are accurate in the first place. But if they do run over, admit it, apologize, figure out why it happened, put strategies in place to prevent it happening again, and then (to repeat) give it to us straight.
People like me already have enough trouble letting the public know that what NASA does is something humans should be doing. Spin like this is not making it any easier.
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