NASA chief: Space Shuttle, space station were a mistake
Declan McCullagh Former Senior Writer
Declan McCullagh is the chief political correspondent for CNET. You can e-mail him or follow him on Twitter as declanm. Declan previously was a reporter for Time and the Washington bureau chief for Wired and wrote the Taking Liberties section and Other People's Money column for CBS News' Web site.
NASA director Michael Griffin has made a remarkable admission: that the agency's two most high-profile projects have been colossal mistakes.
Both the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station were mistakes and "not the right path" for the agency, Griffin acknowledged in an interview with USA Today's editorial board.
Griffin has made similar comments in the past, but these are his most frank to date.
Now if only the federal government could have figured out that before spending at least $250 billion (billion!) of taxpayer money on these two programs. At least we got some nice photos of the Earth out of it.