[anymouse]

Beware of Frenchmen bearing lunar cheese. :)

[anymouse]

Space policy ping.

[JustPlainJoe]

"bon debarras" - what we should have said about the french in 1940!

[jwalburg]

Writing in Le Monde on January 22, Michael Alberganti takes President Bush’s reference to the Lewis and Clark expedition

Open space mission total waste

[The_Victor]

The international partners were, and are, not "partners".

[RightWhale]

“The Frontier does not have a good reputation in Europe…

The Frontier is a European concept. America is a European concept. Of course only 5% of Europeans ever act on such concepts--ignoring such oddities as Napoleon, Hitler, the Crusades, Mussolini, Alexander, Caesar, and the rest of the multitude who populate European history's more active pages.

[KellyAdmirer]

Invite the coalition partners along and "bon chance" to the rest. Let them eat cake.

[Tacis]

Actually, the French may go-it-alone again; they have learned so very much from their aircraft carrier technolgy.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Here's a group ready to halt any attempt to cut their entitlements. NASA needs some airing out and these science prima donnas need a reality check.

A Space Oddity***While the government may be contemplating a push toward the Red Planet, it is useless to do so without the participation of the nation's top research universities.***