[The Working Man]

Our morale can’t be low. We have no morale to be low. We have thousands of highly skilled engineers just sitting around wanting to work.

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One of the reason’s I left the Biz is that NASA is held hostage to the Politics of each Administration that comes in.

If there is to be real progress in building viable launch vehicles and exploration of the solar system then the effort needs to be completely separated from politics.

I don’t see it happening though. And what you see with happening to NASA was totally predictable. The saddest thing is that this has happened before after Apollo. The odds of good people going into Aerospace Engineering have just gone down again.

With all that being said maybe now is the time for private enterprise to step up and do the job. May they be successful!

[cripplecreek]

With all that being said maybe now is the time for private enterprise to step up and do the job. May they be successful!

Unfortunately there is zero chance as long as the international outer space treaty exists and gives space the same status as Antarctica. All private industry can do now is play taxi and freight hauler to under government contract, launch satellites or play innkeeper for those hoping for space hotels.

There's virtually no hope that private industry will do any real exploration because they can't own anything they find or claim mineral rights.