:Our astronauts are like brave firefighters, always ready to go, always saying, "can do" with equipment that was obsolete the day it flew in 1981.
I am a passionate advocate of space exploration by man. If we made a national commitment of a scale like Apollo, the budget would be one trillion dollars.
I fear, however, that we are not willing to pay what it costs. That is not a reason to fly men in a system with a 1/75 failure rate.
Do it right, or don't do it.