Originally Posted by Greg B

The point of the article that alarmed me was that some Bush appointed flunky decided he had the right to edit and control the administration's data because of his religous beliefs.

NASA is a science application administration. They cannot risk the lives of others because of Bush's 'Spooky Politics' and his henchmen's ideologies.

Space exploration is some dangerous business. We've seen disasters. I've seen 4 in my lifetime and in ratio to the successes that's outstanding. It calls for hard science in the design and execution of these missions not hocus pocus stuff.