[Darksheare]

Well.
After Sputnik, we built a whole new infrastructure to get into space.
We don't have to build the infrastructure now.
That may be the problem.
The infrastructure itself has become a bloated bureaucracy that is now inefficient and top heavy with PCness.
We may do good by 'killing' the infrastructure and rebuilding anew.

[camas]

did you know that the US could have beat the ussr into space???

but pres kennedy wanted the ussr to be first so he could go to congress an ask for lots of money to "catch up" he got the money and away we went.