Aldridge Says NASA HQ Overhaul, Approval of Agency Budget Top Priorities: "Aldridge Says NASA HQ Overhaul, Approval of Agency Budget Top Priorities
By Brian Berger
Space News Staff Writer
And Lon Rains
Space News Editor
posted: 03:30 pm ET
16 June 2004

WASHINGTON -- In an echo of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board�s report last year, the commission appointed by U.S. President George Bush to recommend ways to implement his vision for getting NASA back to the moon and on the way to Mars missions, called today for significant changes in the way NASA is run.
Edward C. (Pete) Aldridge, chairman of the President�s Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy, said the report released today is not a 'vote of no confidence' in NASA, but a blueprint for the changes the space agency must embrace if it is to take maximum advantage of the clearest presidential directive its been given in decades. "
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