[U S Army EOD]

I've read all of your postings and my answer is, so what. That information has been around forever. The trick to the game is being able to comprehend the information and know a little bit about the history of it.

Name me one large space or flight program that got started on its own without any help from a government in any country.

Once someone can make a profit on it, then and only then will there be a private enterprise that will take over space exploration. By the way, NASA makes nothing, they contract with private companies.

I am still trying to figure out the point you are making except to criticise the organization that got the space program rolling in the first place.

How would you have done it from the start???

[Analyzing Inconsistencies]

>>>How would you have done it from the start???<<<

NASA's money should have gone to offering competitive prizes like Congress allows but like NASA opportunistically won't do:

http://www.spaceprojects.com/prizes

As for space projects that got underway without govt. support, many have been thwarted by NASA. Here's an example:

http://www.spaceprojects.com/Beal

What a waste of hundreds of millions of dollars.