{"id":4450,"date":"2013-09-13T21:55:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T21:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4450"},"modified":"2013-09-13T21:55:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T21:55:32","slug":"the-plundering-of-nasa-an-expose-and-a-comment-from-a-former-top-nasa-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4450","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Plundering of NASA: An Expos\u00e9&#8221; and a comment from a former top NASA official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve plugged <a href=\"http:\/\/astromaven.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Boozer<\/a>&#8216;s book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/spotlight\/The_Plundering_of_NASA\" target=\"_d\">The Plundering of NASA: an Expos\u00e9<\/a><\/em> several times here. It&#8217;s about<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the Congressional politics which force NASA to do the bidding of regional interests that cripple the nation\u2019s capabilities in both exploring outer space and exploiting its enormous economic potential.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He focuses in particular on the hyper-expensive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/2330\/1\" target=\"_blank\">SLS boondoggle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1300939060?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=hobbyspace&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1300939060\" target=\"_d\"> Amazon page<\/a> he has just added a statement backing his stance from an unexpected source:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;I hope you continue as a voice against pork at NASA&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lori_Garver\" target=\"_blank\">Lori Garver<\/a><\/strong>, (former Deputy Administrator of NASA) commenting to the author about <em>The Plundering of NASA: an Expos\u00e9<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?t=hobbyspace&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=1300939060&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve plugged Rick Boozer&#8216;s book The Plundering of NASA: an Expos\u00e9 several times here. It&#8217;s about the Congressional politics which force NASA to do the bidding of regional interests that cripple the nation\u2019s capabilities in both exploring outer space and exploiting its enormous economic potential. He focuses in particular on the hyper-expensive SLS boondoggle. On &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4450\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Plundering of NASA: An Expos\u00e9&#8221; and a comment from a former top NASA official<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-books","category-space-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-19M","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3363,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3363","url_meta":{"origin":4450,"position":0},"title":"Spacevidcast: The Plundering of NASA: an Expos\u00e9","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Astrophysicist Rick Boozer discussed his new book, The Plundering of NASA: an Expos\u00e9 (available as a Amazon ebook and in paperback at Lulu.com) on\u00a0 SpaceVidCast on July 6th.\u00a0 Here is the video of the program: http:\/\/youtu.be\/Z5j9JmPI8SY Update: Here is the Spacevidcast page for this show: The Plundering of NASA: An\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Activism&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Activism","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=hobbyspace&l=as2&o=1&a=B00CQQ3MQK","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3223,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3223","url_meta":{"origin":4450,"position":1},"title":"Spacevidcast with Rick Boozer and The Plundering of NASA: an Expos\u00e9","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Spacevidcast is about to begin the webcast of its next Live Show\u00a0 at 5:00 pm EDT (21:00 UTC, 2:00 PDT). http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/spacevidcast?v=-p1UKafapr4 Rick Boozer will be a guest on the program and he will discuss his new book, The Plundering of NASA: an Expos\u00e9. 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