[Hot Tabasco]

The Space Shuttle is another good example. For 30 years the shuttles went up and the shuttles came down.

Yes they did and where was the necessary public funding to attempt this in the private sector???

So you have a problem with the Apollo moon landing missions, the Skylab space station and later the Space Shuttle? And lets add to that the International Space Station, the Earth Observing System, heliophysics, robotic spacecraft, the current Mars explorer, the Hubbell telescope….and the list goes on and on and on……

So how many of those projects were privately funded?

When the time comes when there is a profit to be made, such projects will be taken over by the private sector……….

Nice try.....

[oh8eleven]

So you have a problem with the Apollo moon landing missions, the Skylab space station and later the Space Shuttle?
I was fine with all the space programs up until the Challenger fiasco.
In fact, I was so taken with the original programs like Mercury and Gemini, I used to cut school to watch the launches.
The space program in it's entirety has proven that man's future is here on Earth. If you think I'm wrong, you pay to prove it.