[hopespringseternal]

“A quick NASA calculation,” noted Tucker, “revealed that the Mars effort would cost nearly $500 billion over 30 years.”

This number has been debunked 500 billion times.

Sooner or later, space industry will catch on. Someone this century is going to be the Bill Gates of space and start the Microsoft of space transportation.

They will come up with a successful system for getting humans and cargo into low earth orbit and they will make billions.

[KevinDavis]

Look at Burt Rutan...

[KevinDavis]

I know.. Some people just like to bash NASA, however , when it comes to overall spending, we have spent more on social programs than on NASA in the past 30 years.