NASA's Full-Blown Purgatory

Tom Wolfe has an op-ed piece at The New York Times today. My suspicion is they could reverse their financial death spiral overnight by printing more of this quality more often. It may be tough to reverse the stream of leftist drivel one has come to expect after a long gestation beginning in earnest with Walter Duranty in the '30s.

My editorializing aside, Wolfe's analysis of our space program over the forty years following the first moon landing is bold and honest. As the author of The Right Stuff, he is well-positioned to address the place of space exploration in the American psyche. Furthermore, T.S. Eliot told us that old men should be explorers. At 78, Wolfe remains one of our best.

BTW The Right Stuff would make great summer reading this year.