[JudgemAll]

5) The socialists at Time just can't seem to say the word that is really needed here - PRIVATIZE!

I beg to differ on that. Space programs should be MILITARIZED! We are the only country that treat space as a University project through NASA. It's nuts, it's open sourced, it's insecure.

THe rest of lower critical works should be indeed privatized, however that means using Russian, Euro, Japanese or even Chinese rocketry. How can we privatize when using foreign subsidised nationalised rocketry? It's nonsense. Privatize yes, but you must match the protectionism of other nations with your own protectionism, lest we become a banana republic.

[Jim Noble]

>>I beg to differ on that. Space programs should be MILITARIZED! We are the only country that treat space as a University project through NASA<<

A University project and a PR project and a feelgood project and a diversity project and a jobs program....

You are right. US Space Force. Seize the high ground. Moonbase Eagle by 2010, on to Mars.

The bright light from memory of our brave heroes must not blind us to the bipartisan disgrace that is NASA.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: Space programs should be MILITARIZED! We are the only country that treat space as a University project through NASA.

You may have a point here. If it will get us back to the Moon, to Mars and the Asteroid Belt, I'd vote for it.