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Soon, the US Human Space Flight Plans Committee, informally known as the Augustine Commission, will present its conclusions about the future development avenues NASA could be set on to the Obama Administration. Despite the fact that the panel is charged with rethinking the agency's policies, it seems to be at an impasse itself, as evidenced by the fact that it has not yet ranked possible options, according to their feasibility or sustainability. The group is led by former Lockheed Martin CEO Norm Augustine. The committee held its last video-conference yesterday, in which the final details of the reports it would submit to Obama were discussed. After they turn over the report, the scientists in the commission will essentially have dropped the ball in the president's court. Obama will then have to decide which avenues of space exploration to choose, from only a handful of options. “We did not rate the overall options because, first of all, we were not asked to do that â€" !
and doing it would have required that we apply some sort of judgment as to what the relative weighting of those factors should be,” Augustine says, quoted by Wired. Things are not too peachy within the panel either. There are those who would want to impose much higher safety regulations for the ARES I rocket, the key component o...
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