[SteamshipTime]

When I joined the Aerospace industry 27 years ago, I thought I was going to help put humans on Mars using nuclear thermal rocket engines.

You still can. You just have to convince investors that it's worthwhile to do so rather than relying on coerced collections from taxpayers.

$15B is a staggering amount of money. However, when you're a government agency, you lack any means for rational economic calculus--$15B becomes chump change.

[boris]

"You still can."

Not, alas, me. I am old, tired, cynical, and sick. And disillusioned, as you may be able to detect.

--Boris