Augustine's Risk Aversion Is at Odds With Manned S

tyghe!! writes: "On Tuesday, an independent council of aerospace experts releases a summary review of NASA's human spaceflight objectives. Led by Norman Augustine, former CEO of Lockheed Martin, the so-called Augustine committee came forward with a number of conclusions that were probably no big surprise to industry insiders. Rand Simberg, a former aerospace engineer finds the report a little too innocuous. In this analysis, Simberg asks, what happens when we take the risk out of space travel?"