[XBob]

44 - "NASA has NO dreamers"

Your whole post is absolutely correct. The guys who got us to the moon were the guys with 'stars in their eyes'.

They are all now all dead, or retired.

NASA is now just another burro-ocracy - pun intended! And we are going to be stuck on this planet.

It began after the first moon landing (goal accomplished), and has been going down hill ever since.

Any NASA project is now a make work program, and most, starting with the shuttle, were/are designed to impact at least 75 congressional districts, in order to guarantee funding.

And NASA and the space contractors have learned to 'rig' the system to make it so prohibitively expensive, that we can't afford to go anywhere again, other than sending a toy car (much like you get a 6-8 year old boy for christmas) in our stead.

[RadioAstronomer]

Any NASA project is now a make work program, and most, starting with the shuttle, were/are designed to impact at least 75 congressional districts, in order to guarantee funding.

Pure codswallop.

And NASA and the space contractors have learned to 'rig' the system to make it so prohibitively expensive, that we can't afford to go anywhere again, other than sending a toy car (much like you get a 6-8 year old boy for christmas) in our stead.

More codswallop. Do you have any idea how hard it is to accomplish an interplanetary mission? I do. I flew interplanetaries.