Okay, there are two reasons I love this story in the Orlando Sentinel scrutinizing NASA’s budget: 1) It’s way past time that the federal government bring some accountability to the space program. 2) It’s written by one of my best friends, Mark K. Matthews.

Mark and his colleague Robert Block have been all over the NASA boys (and girls) lately. Last week, they wrote about NASA administrator Michael Griffin’s attempts to stonewall the Obama transition team’s efforts to dig into cost overruns at the agency. Their story about a heated discussion between Griffin and Lori Garver, head of Obama’s space transition team, landed Matthews on Keith Olbermann’s show.