[Mr. Jeeves]

They need a mission that is difficult enough to clear out the current layer of inept management while attracting new and capable talent.

Since the engineers who can actually build working spacecraft seem to have retired, how about a new NASA mission to sabotage the Chinese manned space program by selling them shuttle technology (ala the Clinton Administration and Loral)? ;)

[Jim Noble]

Since the engineers who can actually build working spacecraft seem to have retired

Since I was a little boy, I have dreamed of the day we would hear from the first men to land on Mars.

Now, it no longer matters-I don't speak Mandarin.

[RadioAstronomer]

Since the engineers who can actually build working spacecraft seem to have retired

Not all of us.