The US Postal Service back in the Days. (lone gone)
However, Obama and corrupt government has screwed that up now also. NASA will never be the same.
Even the military will go to shit soon. Big government drives good people away. It attracts the wrong crowd.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Back then, we paid our scientists/engineers well; they had to compete for their position, there were no quotas nor unions. NASA was admired the world over, for pushing mankind ahead.
And the advances that NASA made were then spun off into the civilian sector, yielding advances in medicine, computing, alloys, food, engineering - the money generated by the spin-off technology returned the cost of NASA a hundred-fold.
Today, NASA's primary goal is apparently "Muslim Outreach", which is even more pathetic than flying 1970's technology Space Shuttles around the country.