[Timm]

Here's another alternative. Collect $50 billion in hard currency, pile it up on a Florida runway, and light it on fire. That would have us years of effort, at least.

[ARCADIA]

Seven months after the Columbia debacle the agency is giving serious consideration to bringing back a new version of the Apollo capsule

It's time to get a new agency; these guys are entirely bankrupt of ideas, guts, and common sense.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Collect $50 billion in hard currency, pile it up on a Florida runway, and light it on fire. That would have us years of effort, at least."

Yeah, and Isabella's funding of Columbus was just a sheer waste of money, wasn't it???

[WestPacSailor]

Collect $50 billion in hard currency, pile it up on a Florida runway, and light it on fire. That would have us years of effort, at least.

And for our $50 billion we could GUARANTEE no astronauts would be killed in space.

Only down side is you're gonna make the environazis angry with all that smoke.