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"Vice President Al Gore went out of his way to announce the X-33 contract award in July 1996 and the general concensus is that Al Gore owns the project."

from http://www.aerotechnews.com/starc/1999/111999/X33_Shakeup.html

Please cut and paste. I am HTML dyslexic and can't hyperlink.

This contract was awarded in a corrupt fashion, highly atypically without competition. I am of the distinct impression that bribe money flowed as a result of this billion dollar fraud to the DNC bigwigs and especially the Clintons.

Both Clintons got 8-10 million each dollar book advances upon leaving office, hefty sums for books no one will ever read. I would be very interested in the financing of these advances. I wonder if Lockheed Martin does any book financing.

You've got THAT right! I believe LockMart (headquartered in formerly heavily Democratic Maryland) was one of Gore's [or at least the Democrats'] top 5 campaign contributors...if it wasn't Boeing. !Viva campaign finance reform! The Democrats can't keep up with us in terms of HARD money donations, so maybe government will soon become more user-friendly.

Here's why Boeing (which is making the X-37) also loved Gore:

http://www.spaceprojects.com/iss

Annoyingly enough, NASA simultaneously thwarted a privatized Russian competitor:

http://www.spaceprojects.com/Mir