[Nowhere Man]

I get frustrated as well. What we could be doing with the Moon... It's just sitting up there. We should be using it. No easy solutions IMHO.

We wasted a generation where we could have been on the Moon and Mars. I remember the Apollo 11 Moon landing even though I was 3, for some reason, I understood what it meant and the potential. We do need another Sputnik to wake us up but that "Sputnik" could be a nuke launched from some far off shore that hits one of our cities. B-( I'm a "spacehead" (I follow the space program) and a "radiohead" (I have an amateur radio license) myself so this is a subject near and dear to my heart. We need to quit all this PC BS that is rampant in the Western world, it will only serve to kill us or subject us all.

[RadioAstronomer]

This subject is near to my heart as well. I just don't see it as a national priority. Neither manned or unmanned. Without funding, you go nowhere. (no pun intended from your name) :-)