[ConservativeMind]

America does not need NASA to dream or look forward.

Do you think supporters of George Washington or Abraham Lincoln were thinking, “Dang, if only we had a NASA to get us to the Moon?”

[Spktyr]

Part of the problem is that NASA and the Feds make it very difficult for ‘unapproved’ space ventures to go forwards and that they’ve actively engaged in sabotage of several likely ventures over the last couple of decades. The Feds *want* to have a monopoly on US space travel.

[Thermalseeker]

Do you think supporters of George Washington or Abraham Lincoln were thinking, “Dang, if only we had a NASA to get us to the Moon?”

No, but they had their own NASA's of their time, like the Lewis and Clark expedition and building a transcontinental railroad and telegraph network......