September 28, 2005 8:16 AM PDT
NASA chief: Space Shuttle, space station were a mistake
NASA director Michael Griffin has made a remarkable admission: that the agency's two most high-profile projects have been colossal mistakes.
Both the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station were mistakes and "not the right path" for the agency, Griffin acknowledged in an interview with USA Today's editorial board.
Griffin has made similar comments in the past, but these are his most frank to date.
Now if only the federal government could have figured out that before spending at least $250 billion (billion!) of taxpayer money on these two programs. At least we got some nice photos of the Earth out of it.
Declan McCullagh, CNET News' chief political correspondent, chronicles the intersection of politics and technology. He has covered politics, technology, and Washington, D.C., for more than a decade, which has turned him into an iconoclast and a skeptic of anyone who says, "We oughta have a new federal law against this." E-mail Declan. 
