Garver: NASA Should Cancel SLS and Mars 2020 Rover

摘要

Former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver, speaking Jan. 2 on National Public Radio's "The Diane Rehm Show," made some of her most critical comments since stepping down in September about two key NASA programs: the Space Launch System and Mars 2020 rover. Early in the show, Garver hinted that NASA was not spending its budget as effectively as it could after Rehm suggested NASA's core problem was that it did not have a big enough budget. "I'm not sure it is, actually," she said. "I believe that NASA and their $17 billion has an incredibly exciting and important space program. Of course, we could do even more with our $17 billion, and I think if we did that we would engender that support from the public and their elected leadership."