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Either we decide to do this, or we continue to flounder with regard to our future in space.

SSTO is worthy of a Manhattan level national project. If we don't care to persue SSTO, let's just be honest with ourselves, turn the lights out at NASA and relinquish our underfunded, unimaginative national pipe dream.

We had a thirty year jump on other nations. We are within a few years of other nations launching their own 1970s vintage shuttle programs. Do we really want to settle for a glorified shuttle system to see us through the next forty years, or do we wish to once again lift our eyes toward heaven, this time leapfroging the technological barriers that keep us from inhabiting space routinely, permanently?

Space will be conquered by some nation. Will it be us? Technological advances are not going to elude the rest of the world's nations forever. Either we open up space in a leadership position, or we settle to be also rans.

We are determining our space future for the next 50 years right now. Either we get that fact, or we go back to sleep while others gaze at the stars with real intent, not complacent day dreaming.

I get tired of reading articles talking about going back to the tried and true. Geez Louise, does talk of gemini capsules and u-haul space lifters really spark the imaginations of our space leaders? Actually, I'm convinced it does.

Nope, we need a number of new vehicles, but at least one of them needs to be a space ferry lifting cargo into space for dollars per pound. We'll NEVER achieve that with mere rocket lifters and dropped cargo space destined vehicles.

It's 35 years past time when we should have been designing our shuttle replacement.

We could fly x15s into space 40 years ago, but today we can't fly there because the technology doesn't exist. What's wrong with this picture? Where's the next step boys? Your last one was a long long time ago, in a productive glactic imagination, far far away.

Whiz or get off the pot!