How not to prioritize

摘要

On 8 January, NASA's administrator Mike Griffin upbraided the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas, for a lack of team spirit. Not only were some of the scientists less than enthusiastic about the human-exploration goals that have been this administrations top priority in space, they were also messing up the agency's astrophysics programme with special pleading to Congress. Such interventions, Griffin warned, would thwart the community's stated goals and blight its future projects.