Unless something dramatic happens between composing this missive and publishing it, the newly hopeful United States, under the leadership of the "Yes, We Can!" Obama administration, will commence February 2009 without a NASA administrator, and with no apparent overarching strategy for integrating NASA in a deeply impactful way into the much ballyhooed economic stimulus plan. It's an ironic, nay, tragic, twist of events: the President who was elected in part on the backbone of the...  More >>