What is it with this Mr Clinton business? He's gone 2 years and we still don't have a respectable space exploration program. China, at least sees the need for such a thing. Don't blame China and don't blame Clinton. It's our own fault there is any threat of competition in space at all. We were 30-40 years ahead of everyone except Russia and eventually caught up to Russia and went beyond. Then we stopped. STOPPED for no reason. We could have run away from everyone so far and so fast they would have to ask which direction we went. But we didn't. So we have competitors. It isn't Clinton that made this possible. It's US, the citizens of this complacent, rest on its laurels country who let this happen. The race to the goal-line was over, we won, but we dropped the ball on the 2-yard line. Doesn't matter how fast we were, how good. We chose to not win the whole game, so now we're threatened by people we didn't even see as being interested in the race.
Clinton, ptui, blame ourselves.
Manned space travel is a total waste of money.