[Tallguy]

NASA did a good job through the Apollo program because it acted more as an agenda setter and a clearing house for technology. The aerospace companies of the day did most of the heavy-lifting. Now NASA is like an old-fashioned, government-run arsenal. Inefficient to say the least. Of course, we have far fewer aerospace companies to turn to than in the 50's and 60's.

[Jaysun]

NASA did a good job through the Apollo program because it acted more as an agenda setter and a clearing house for technology. The aerospace companies of the day did most of the heavy-lifting. Now NASA is like an old-fashioned, government-run arsenal. Inefficient to say the least. Of course, we have far fewer aerospace companies to turn to than in the 50's and 60's.

It's true that we have far fewer aerospace companies to turn to than in the 50's and 60's, but we're also not trying to get to the moon for the first time. What's come of the hundreds of billions of dollars sent to NASA since then? Foam mattress material that's being touted on infomercials and TANG?