[ez]

Now is the time to take most of our eggs out of the Shuttle basket. It is time to develop the Scramjet single-stage-to-orbit vehicle

I'm with you, we should use this fork in the road to move away from the costly Shuttle and set the nation immediately working on the next generation low-orbit vehicle.

[Jennifer in Florida]

I'm with you, we should use this fork in the road to move away from the costly Shuttle and set the nation immediately working on the next generation low-orbit vehicle.

Yup. Shouldn't we have that next generation low-orbit vehicle by now, after the disaster with Challenger? Columbia was older than 21, also. It was built in 1979.