Only the Post Office can deliver packages, eh?
The federal government has no more business running a space program than it does running a railroad. NASA should go back to its original mission of R&D and leave manned spaceflight to private industry.
"The federal government has no more business running a space program than it does running a railroad. NASA should go back to its original mission of R&D and leave manned spaceflight to private industry."
Do you think any Country will allow a private Corporation to Colonize the Moon? The moon is the first stop on our journey to other planets. It will be our testing grounds for building viable habitats on distant planets. And the only way anyone is going to get there and establish a Colony is if a Nation goes and establishes the first one. All the NASA naysayers would have China or Russia or India be the ones to establish such. Just because President Obama has decided to quit doesn't mean the space race is over. It just means China and Russia and India and others are grinning from ear to ear because the guy that is 100 laps in the lead has decided to not run anymore.
Brilliant plan.