Cyclical changes doom progress

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Sir, While biased in favour of the so-called 'Flexible Path', your March 2012 analysis, 'Road Maps to the Future 1: Changing Paths' did a good job of outlining the post-Gblumbia upheaval NASA is still reeling from. NASA's current direction is an amalgamation of anti-Constellation alternatives, and by sheer dumb luck it lines up with the options presented by the Augustine panel, namely commercial providers to the station and NASA using some kind of heavy lifter for exploration.