NASA's greatest challenge

ToSeek · #1 (**permalink**) 26-September-2005, 04:38 PM

Interesting editorial from the guy at NASAWatch and Spaceref:

NASA's Greatest Challenge - Harder Than Climbing Any Mountain

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NASA's greatest challenge in the years ahead is not technical - or even fiscal. Rather, it is in reconnecting (once again) what it does with what people see as being important - more important than doing other things that also compete for scarce tax dollars. In many ways NASA needs to catch up to where society has gone. It needs to not only be relevant, it needs to be perceived by people as being relevant. Alas, perception and reality are not necessarily the same thing. That is the hard part.

Ilya · #2 (**permalink**) 26-September-2005, 05:52 PM

You mean, that's news?

Relevance has been NASA's biggest challenge since about 1973 -- whether NASA admits it or not.

ToSeek · #3 (**permalink**) 26-September-2005, 09:46 PM

In the cosmology short course I took last month, at the end of one session the instructor asked each of us what we would spend NASA's money on if we were the NASA administrator. There was a definite consensus that NASA doesn't do nearly enough on outreach and education, and what it does do isn't very well organized.

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