All 4 of NASA's Office of Space Science subcommittees held their latest.
meetings this month at Cocoa Beach, and the Origins subcommittee has already
put its report on the Web:
http://spacescience.nasa.gov/adv/letters/OS0112.htm
The biggest pieces of news are that:
(1) FAME (the Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer) has run into serious
developmental difficulties that may cause a cost overrun serious enough to
cancel it.
(2) SIRTF has run into some kind of unspecified software problems that will
significantly delay its launch.
Now, I may be simple, and ignorant of a lot of the hard science involved... but it seems to me that, as a simple budgetary matter, it shouldn't be so damned hard to come up with some reasonable cost predictions and stick to them
No wonder people don't trust NASA. Sounds like another boondoggle to me.
-- John
