Expect a lot of heat and smoke, but not much in the way of
substance when President Bush announces his new "bold agenda" for
space exploration.
So says the Orlando Sentinel. NASA documents obtained by
the newspaper, as well as interviews it's conducted, indicate the
new agenda will look an awfully lot like the old one.
But it's designed to sound good. One internal NASA document written
as a talking-points paper for the White House puts it like
this:
"A house with no foundation falls, and a journey without a plan
traps us in the wilderness. To move America and the world boldly
into our greatest frontier we must build the foundations of mind,
technology and experience. Without them, our journey into space
would be only a visit. With them, we can stay. Our childr