NASA fail

And NASA adds one more embarrassment to its ever-growing annals. In Australia, an attempt to release a balloon carrying a telescope belonging to UC Berkeley ended with the telescope dragged over a distance of some 150 yds, eventually hitting an airport fence and a car. The gamma-ray telescope was, presumably, destroyed.
Whatever happened to NASA being reputable? Really, NASA's reputation is falling apart, with its ever-growing series of gaffes. The ISS is becoming a joke, with extremely poor maintenance; it is said that a leaky roof was dealt with by a metal overhang over a computer that redirects the water to a bucket. After working so hard, NASA is finally losing the Space Race; with the retirement of its fleet of space shuttles, the only way to get to the ISS is via Russia's Soyuz.
NASA needs to get its game going. I want to see the NASA of the Cold War, the innovative administration that got new things done, and accomplished things never done before, that some thought were impossible.
From Slashdot, but http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=31922