[js1138]

You're making the same mistake that NASA has made: equating the Shuttle program with the Space Program. The Shuttle should be ditched because it is standing in the way of progress in space.

So what are the chances of W taking a Kennedy-like stand on this, proposing a new mission and direction for NASA?

[Man of the Right]

The Space Program isn't on his radar screen. The White House janitor supervises NASA.

[Physicist]

Good question. I'll say 50-50.