Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be thought-provoking.

Reader suggestions and comments are welcome... and if particularly intriguing, timely, or poignant, may themselves become future Quotes of the Day.

Let us hear from you, folks!

Aero-News Quote of the Day

“So, what do you think of that B.W.M. over there?” “B.W.M.?” I frowned in reply. “Yeah,” he smirked, “Big Waste of Money.” Considering that the Obama administration had, literally with the stroke of a pen, recently wasted more than 11 billion dollars in spaceflight investment that had actually passed through Congress by a margin of about 400 to 8 votes, that restatement seemed quite out of place. “It’ll only be a waste when they take a torch to it,” was my reply.

Source: Part of the narrative from an intriguing story by ANN's Space Correspondent (and sometimes 'spacy' correspondent) describing his study of the transtion fr0m the ARES of old to today's SLS... such as it is.

FMI: www.nasa.gov