[philipwhiuk]

If the concerns aren't addressed then there's a defined process by which the NASA Administrator (Nelson) has to sign it off.

NASA has learnt from the bad days of blind Mission Management teams.

[PopePompus]

Nelson. The guy who thinks the far side of the Moon is in eternal darkness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daZyPwCQak8&t=153s

[netsharc]

If one wants to be generous, maybe he means dark "to us" because we never see it from the earth.

[PopePompus]

Well, I'm reluctant to give him the benefit of the doubt because he also says "we don't know what's on the back side of the Moon" despite the fact that the agency he heads mapped the far side of the Moon decades ago.