Attn: 'über' space geeks...live play-by-play of a Mars probe entering orbit

[Paul F.]

I don't doubt that for a moment...

That's one of the sorts of things that the new head of NASA, Mike Griffin, is trying to cut out... He's trying to re-orient parts of NASA away from bean-counting, and generating paper, and back towards actually DOING things.
He's fired about a dozen managers...