There were a lot of discussions about the path NASA should follow in connection with its current and future space missions, but no conclusion has yet been fixed. The cooperation between Barack Obama’s new NASA transition team and Michael Griffin, NASA’s current administrator, not yet exactly fructuous, approaches in different aspects come from various sources, and it is difficult to make a decision to please everyone. A new review from MIT’s Space, Politics and Society Research Group aims to shed some light on the situation.

The team developed that the independent review during the two years’ worth of monitoring and evaluation data is composed of political analysts, engineers, historians, and a former astronaut. It aims at a correct direction to NASA’s Manned Space Program. complied with the transition team and a number of politicians on Capitol Hill, only to find that the latter are undecided about the best way to solve the problem of the space program.

“Our major recommendation is that Obama administration should rethink the Bush plan”, was the conclusion of the MIT Technology Review Guide and historian David Mindell, as quoted by Wired. “The problem with the current plan is that it is too ambitious and under-funded and not really thought through. Our recommendation is that the Obama team a new policy.” There are simply not enough money to retire the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station, build the Constellation program, and use it for manned missions to the moon and Mars.

“The Bush plan has never been funded to the level it was at. We are not trying to make a case that the NASA budget must be doubled, because that is simply not viable in this environment. But go on the road they ‘re going is to kill people, just like that, “says Mindell. The team stresses the importance of international cooperation, especially with the new competitor in the space race, such as India and China, especially by not retiring the shuttle missions before it was supposed to (not just from the U.S.) are implemented.

Space in the fleet would be retired with other countries, no (or little) resources to the ISS, where she also extensive research behavior. During the review also found that robotic and human missions should be in equilibrium, as now people are overexposed to the risks of spaceflight, exploration and research. But hopes are still high, says Mindell, “I believe there are a lot of new interest in space. NASA building new hardware for the first time in a generation. Students in aerospace engineering in a way they were not five years ago. There is a new kind of space age, and it’s all very exciting. “