You are welcome.
We could have had a permanent Moon Base now, and a manned Mars scientific base too. We might have built deep space ships. Our people knew how with numerical certainty in 1975. Jupiter's moons. Europa. Saturn's Titan.
Near Earth space with 10,000 full time people. Daily 500 ton launches.
F-22s have their place, but how about an orbital free electron laser battle station that could shoot down fifty enemy aircraft a second. Seriously.
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/fel_001023.html
The FEL is a baby now. Fifty bogies a second is a ways away. Several years. Maybe less. Look at this megawatt FEL study, from the DOD:
http://www.stormingmedia.us/80/8022/A802224.html
Those Lefties have stopped all of this for way, way, way to long.