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[Greg Hullender]

Science 1 June 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5829, p. 1269

News of the Week
SPACE SCIENCE:
Stern Looks for Way Out of NASA's Budget Squeeze
Andrew Lawler
His $5.4 billion budget is stretched thin, but rather than cancel space projects nearing launch or ask for more money, NASA's new science chief Alan Stern says he intends to beef up lunar science, champion smaller and less complex spacecraft, and insist on hard-nosed cost estimates before larger missions can win approval.

Full article: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/316/5829/1269a

I especially liked this line: "I don't have to kill any missions," he insists. But he said NASA will consider firing those principal investigators in charge of missions that spiral out of control.

[djellison]

Indeed - the ISS is being used as an LDEF platform - the MISSE experiments.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/...SE-3-and-4.html

It's the managerial lessons, the processes, that I think need to be learnt by future PI's in smaller scale projects - not how to build spacecraft (something they don't do anyway)

Doug