[the anti-liberal]

I agree about using probes, this is simply the intelligent approach.

But imagine what we would be doing if NASA wasn't run as an inefficient bureaucracy!

Though I'm skeptical that the private sector, with it's 'bottom line' mentality, is the best answer - there needs to be a third option.

As far as I know, there isn't any, so we have private industry competing for LEO business were tourism may be profitable, while the bureaucratic behemoth that is NASA does deep space (pun intended).

Sigh.

[PatriotBill]

Don't you know those astronauts gets some serious "groupie tail!" If your nickname is "Buzz," you're a chick magnet!!!