I fear you are right. NASA made six manned space voyages to the moon, and then shut the whole program down. Ming China did one better: they made seven blue ocean voyages (under Admiral Cheng Ho, of course), and then shut the whole program down.
They gave up the dominion of the world; we have given up dominion of the Solar System. And for what? For an empire of debt.
19 posted on 03/01/2006 9:30:02 PM PST by John Locke