FORMER SENATOR, AND APOLLO ASTRONAUT, HARRISON SCHMITT: Apollo 13, the Gulf Oil Spill, and BP. “Whatever their motives, the president and his cabinet officers, without any experience in real-world management of anything major, much less a crisis, have no idea how to deal with a situation as technically complex as the Gulf oil spill. It has been left to BP engineers and managers and to Gulf state officials to respond as best they can in a regulatory environment that is politically charged, incompetent, fearful, and hesitant.”