Heavy-Lift Rocket Behind Schedule - NYTimes.com

In this briefing on NASA's Heavy-Life Rocket project , we learn that the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation believes that their legislative powers supersede the laws of physics, finance, and rationality. NASA recently told Congress they are behind schedule on the project and will need more money to finish. In response, Committee members Kay Bailey Hutchison and Bill Nelson stated that the blueprint for building the rocket on time (2016) and within the allotted budget "is not an optional, advisory document: it is the law."

In other words, this *must* happen because *we say this should*. When the Committee on Science places more faith in wishful thinking than they do in science, what hope does science have?