A CANCER is overtaking our space agency: the routine acquiescence to immense cost increases in projects.

this man comes across as a fool
all major spending projects go massively over budget - that's not a cancer - he's just trying to position himself to get a new job at NASA under the new administration
major spending projects go over budget - accept that and when they do you are forced to make choices between projects
I think he has a point that sometimes this is due to mission creep which is a more controllable factor but it is also a reality of political infighting between projects if the author lost some battles and left NASA don't cry about it now
plus when the spending control pencil pushers take charge NASA and science tend to be the losers

Op-Ed Contributor - NASA’s Black Hole Budgets - NYTimes.com