The chair and vice-chairs of the 2009 National Research Council (NRC) study “America’s Future in Space: Aligning the Civil Space Program With National Needs” think the Obama plan for NASA makes the NASA program just as unbalanced as its predecessor. “This time the pendulum has swung the other way,” write Gen. Lester Lyles (Ret), Dr. Lennard Fisk and Dr. Raymond Colladay in a joint letter to Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA), ranking member of the House Appropriations Commerce-Justice-Science subcommittee. Rep. Wolf’s office is making the letter public.