The Non-Plan For NASA's #JourneyToMars

Unfortunately @DavaExplorer has no more detail on the actual way that #NASA will do the #JourneyToMars than anyone @NASA has #H2M2016

— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) May 17, 2016

Here's why many in aerospace remain skeptical of the Journey to Mars, Ars Technica

"There's no question that Dava Newman is a very smart person. She is a highly respected scientist who was a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before coming to NASA. She also is not entirely new to the job as deputy administrator, having been with the agency for a year as of May 15. So it's difficult to explain her meandering response to a straightforward, valid question. These are questions NASA ought to be striving to clearly answer, because they're exactly the kinds of things a presidential transition team will be asking about at the end of this year. It is one thing to bluff the media and hold NASA "social" events where space enthusiasts are shown hardware and dazzled by astronauts and senior NASA scientists. Newman also will undoubtedly get a rousing roar of approval after her speech to the Humans to Mars conference today."

Keith's note: It would seem that Dava Newman's transformation from a normal person into a NASA bureaucrat is now complete.

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