Get used to this one over-riding fact of our future: Were broke. Utterly and completely broke. Serious cost-cutting is coming, because the alternative will be a devaluation of the US dollar that will destabilize the world.
I'm told that you are a small but vocal minority here. Also that this is "moonbattery" (what you're talking about) ... and that most FReepers are Pro-NASA ...
So..., I guess that means I should ignore you ... LOL ...
Don’t care if people ignore me on this point.
The fiscal excess of the last 10 years, coupled with the absurdly insane spending of today make it inevitable that manned space programs will be canned.
I don’t have to do a thing to make it happen.