[rlmorel]

I completely concur with all of you on this.

It is shameful, NASA has become part of the climate change propaganda arm of the Left.

I fully admit, there was a time when I thought we NEEDED NASA to do these things which were too big and expensive for private companies, and I felt that way right up to the end of the shuttle program.

I see the error of my ways. It CAN be done by a private company, and better, because they have financial skin in the game, where NASA did not.

I always compare the Wright Brothers to Samuel Langley. Langley got tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars given to him to produce a flyable plane, and failed miserably.

The Wright Brothers used under a thousand dollars of their own money to successfully produce a flying machine.

[Bernard]

Some of the evolution of space travel was predicted by Isaac Asimov in the original Foundation trilogy. Discovery and development comes in waves, led by different groups.

Our government, most of all, has become too bloated and self-protective to do anything useful. Real space exploration in the future will come from private enterprises and individuals. The major problem will come from government interference, regulations, and taxation on the efforts.

To build from the Asimov model, we have become Trantor.