[Bean Counter]

Two words sum up what will cure all of the ills at NASA:

Private Enterprize.

It's high time that the Gubmint got out of the space business, and turned it over to someone like Burt Rutan to make it really do what it was intended to do.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

At least one prominent science fiction author (two Hugo awards) agrees with you:

WRITTEN TESTIMONY TO THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON SPACE AND AERONAUTICS, COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES -- ALLEN M. STEELE, 4/03/2001