[Man of the Right]

The U.S. should discontinue manned space flight ASAP. In particular, the Shuttle is a failed technology. The premise that the shuttle could lift satellites cheaper than unmanned rockets proved to be incorrect. The program limps along because it has a powerful interest group behind it and bureaucratic inertia.

[Kip Lange]

Man will never give up on the dream of space exploration. *NEVER*.

[Smile-n-Win]

The U.S. should discontinue manned space flight ASAP.

A lot of people die in car accidents every year--and each of their deaths is a terrible tragedy for their families--but does that mean we should discontinue driving?

Soldiers die defending our freedom--does that mean we should stop defending our freedom?

Or should we rather try and make cars and defense efforts and spacecraft safer, "expand[ing] man's horizons" ?

President Reagan's speech after the Challenger disaster has been posted many times today, and I quoted my favorite paragraph earlier on this thread:

And I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's takeoff. I know it is hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery. It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them...