Former Astronaut and Senator Wants to Dismantle NASA
29th May 2011
Harrison Schmitt, a former U.S. Senator from New Mexico and Apollo Astronaut, says although “NASA’s had a good 50-year run,” it’s now time for a change.
Schmitt is proposing to start from scratch, by taking NASA’s deep space exploration efforts and putting them in a new agency. That agency, which Schmitt has dubbed the National Space Exploration Agency, or NSEA, would focus on missions to the moon and beyond.
Or, better yet, we could leave it to private enterprise, which is doing a great job without burdening the taxpayers.