O'Keefe taking fire
Bruce Moomaw has an article out today entitled The Case Against Hubble. The article has some pretty harsh criticism of NASA in general and Sean O'Keefe in particular:
"But O'Keefe's ignorance of basic details of aerospace technology is now infamous; and this is not the first time he has been tricked into backing a seriously questionable major new program by his more experienced NASA underlings. They hold a strong and predictable desire to keep the agency's total funding level pumped as high as possible, whether it's justified or not."
I disagree with the first sentence quoted above: O'Keefe does not strike me as one who is easily fooled. Of course, the implications of that are probably worse than if he was "tricked".
As to the second sentence above, I fully agree; I would go further to state that such a desire stretches across all bureaucracies. It goes beyond a desire; it is the survival and reproductive trait of Bureaucracy.
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