Early Wednesday morning, June 16, 2004, the President's Commission on Moon, Mars and Beyond delivered its report to the White House. The report, titled "A Journey to Inspire, Innovate and Discover" (PDF format) was later released to the public.
Winds team member T.L. James took time out of his interstate move to summarize the report's findings and key recommendations. Thanks, Tom!
Meanwhile, Transterrestrial Musings has a few cogent, uh... transterrestrial musings covering space policy, NASA and the private sector. Overall, he thinks it's a very good report but believes that leaving out public space travel was a mistake. He also points us to a great blog post on this subject by Alan Boyle of MSNBC's Cosmic Log.
We've talked about these policy questions before, in blog posts like "Ad Astra, Without NASA." It's nice to see them being raised, at last, in official documents.
To my ear, a more euphonious phrase would be:
"Ad Astra, sans NASA.