Letter: We Can’t Let Costly SLS Become NASA’s Albatross

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, in his op-ed “NASA Recharting its Path to Mars” [Commentary, Feb. 20, page 17], says that one of his greatest joys is speaking to students and young people about the inspiration of space exploration. But surely he and the Obama administration must know the general perception in the country is that NASA is scaling back on American space exploration. Citing current missions formulated nearly a decade ago does not overcome looking ahead to the 2020s with little to cite about American space achievement — and a generation much less inspired by it.