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 Jul 22 2006, 12:21 PM
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/22/science/22nasa.html
From 2002 until this year, NASA’s mission statement, prominently featured in its budget and planning documents, read: “To understand and protect our home planet; to explore the universe and search for life; to inspire the next generation of explorers ... as only NASA can.” In early February, the statement was quietly altered, with the phrase “to understand and protect our home planet” deleted. [...] |
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Jul 22 2006, 04:41 PM
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No, I do get the context, but I would hope that a responsible administration would move EO to another agency. I know this one isn't interested. I'm second to nobody in my distrust of - oh, ixnay on the oliticspay...
On the other hand I am very sceptical - cynical, in fact - about the value of mission statements anyway. If the bigwigs wanted to do something they don't need a mission statement to hang it on. If they don't want to do it they won't even if they have the statement in place. But I do have some sympathy for the complaint of the scientist who wanted to be able to refer to it. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Jul 22 2006, 04:52 PM
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jul 22 2006, 12:41 PM)  ...a responsible administration would move EO to another agency. Right...so don't expect to see it done. This is right in line with the government's recent censoring of scientists. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...0502150_pf.html QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jul 22 2006, 12:41 PM) I do have some sympathy for the complaint of the scientist who wanted to be able to refer to it. Or the journalist, or the teacher, or the activist.... |
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Nov 6 2006, 08:48 AM
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QUOTE (centsworth_II @ Jul 22 2006, 01:52 PM) Right...so don't expect to see it done. This is right in line with the government's recent censoring of scientists. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...0502150_pf.html Or the journalist, or the teacher, or the activist.... I think the censoring of scientists is very serious, but they are two seperate issues |
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JRehling Earth deleted from NASA's goals Jul 22 2006, 12:21 PM
Phil Stooke Not such a problem for me. I'd pass that resp... Jul 22 2006, 03:57 PM dvandorn Yes, Phil, but you need to understand the context,... Jul 22 2006, 04:09 PM
centsworth_II QUOTE (dvandorn @ Jul 22 2006, 12:09 PM) ... Jul 22 2006, 04:28 PM Phillip It was the right result, but for the wrong reasons... Jul 22 2006, 05:07 PM mcaplinger QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jul 22 2006, 09:41 A... Jul 22 2006, 05:09 PM dvandorn Oh, I agree, Phil -- the mission statement don... Jul 22 2006, 05:03 PM Phil Stooke OK, you talked me round. It was useful, I was wro... Jul 22 2006, 05:06 PM djellison Mission statements are written by middle and senio... Jul 22 2006, 05:12 PM JRehling QUOTE (djellison @ Jul 22 2006, 10:12 AM)... Jul 23 2006, 05:02 AM Phil Stooke OK, OK, you've talked me round. It was crap, ... Jul 22 2006, 05:26 PM centsworth_II Whether mission statements mean something or not, ... Jul 22 2006, 05:36 PM djellison It depends - are there any EO missions being cance... Jul 22 2006, 06:12 PM Richard Trigaux As a non-US, I would say that this kind of manoeuv... Jul 22 2006, 07:48 PM djellison Enough of the politics and religion. I am watchin... Jul 22 2006, 07:55 PM Richard Trigaux QUOTE (djellison @ Jul 22 2006, 07:55 PM)... Jul 23 2006, 08:24 AM JRehling QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Jul 23 2006, 01... Jul 23 2006, 08:10 PM alan Also missing from the mission statement, and more ... Jul 22 2006, 11:21 PM mcaplinger QUOTE From the NYT article:
In early February, the... Jul 22 2006, 11:48 PM David QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Jul 22 2006, 11:48 PM... Jul 23 2006, 01:19 AM mcaplinger QUOTE (David @ Jul 22 2006, 06:19 PM) Why... Jul 23 2006, 05:22 AM David QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Jul 23 2006, 05:22 AM... Jul 23 2006, 07:21 AM centsworth_II I actually would prefer to see NASA concentrate on... Jul 23 2006, 02:45 PM Richard Trigaux yes, extraterestrial exploration is its primary go... Jul 23 2006, 06:51 PM Jim from NSF.com extraterestrial exploration is NOT its primary goa... Jul 23 2006, 07:13 PM Richard Trigaux If this is the latest mission statement, there is ... Jul 23 2006, 07:23 PM lyford Well, the latest as of 1958.... that is the act wh... Jul 23 2006, 07:56 PM |
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