Technology Drives Exploration of Tomorrow

摘要

As we approach a new cycle of debate on the NASA budget for fiscal year 2015, we are reminded of a famous quote by the renowned management guru Peter Drucker: "The enterprise that does not innovate inevitably ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present... the decline will be fast." Sobering words, ones we hope will not define the nation's space agency 10 years from now. However, if we closely examine Congress' fiscal year 2014 appropriation for research-and-devel-opment (R&D) funding at NASA, one must worry that Drucker's words may be a foreboding premonition for NASA.