I wish I'd written this. It more clearly and authoritatively substantiates criticisms I've mad of NASA here in the past. More nails in Goldin's and NASA management's coffin. Unfortunately, they're like the undead. NASA we have a problem and the problem is NASA management.

http://www.nasaproblems.com/#Contents

some points...
The Space Shuttle program is an entrenched government jobs’ program, where a single launch cost can exceed $500 million. Efforts to commercialize the launch system are sidetracked by NASA Shuttle managers. This aging fleet has been sending warning signals of another disaster...

The Space Station Freedom program was canceled after wasting over $11 billion. Its replacement, the International Space Station is already behind schedule and over budget. If allowed to proceed as planned, it will cost over $94 billion and create another government jobs’ program.

NASA’s planned Space Shuttle replacement, the X-33 / Venture Star launch vehicle program is a billion dollar blunder.

The two Mars Surveyor 98 missions failed because of NASA mismanagement.

A NASA lunar exploration program does not exist. Lunar exploration is now left to be conducted by the European, Chinese, and Japanese space agencies.

NASA’s failure to reduce the cost and improve the reliability of space transportation has slowed the effort for deep space robotics explorations and has postponed manned Lunar and Mars explorations for decades.

NASA’s space research funding is only 10 percent of the budget. Without space research the Agency is stranded with obsolete technologies.

-philw (damn straight bro')