Why Australia needs a NASA style agency
Think about this. Just over 50 years ago when President Eisenhower
and the US Congress realised they had a serious technological and
political challenge matching the Soviet Union in the space race
did they respond by somehow imposing a new tax on non-space
travel in the hope that market forces would somehow respond by
delivering more space travel?
No way. They created a new national agency, one that was wellfunded,
prestigious, and attractive to the best and the brightest US
scientists, managers and engineers. And they gave it a clear goal.
Beat the USSR in space. So they created NASA, the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Australia in 2009 doesnt need a NASA. But it desperately needs a
NESA. A National Energy Savings Agency. Read our paper to find out why. More