[guitfiddlist]

It's going to be next to impossible to recover the lead unless the new NASA space program inspires the youth.

Hate to be the droppings in the punch bowl, but I know better. As an MIT aerospace grad, and an Air Force officer working very closely with NASA's space pig program, we're fugued in this department. The National Aerospace Plane, lame as it was, was our last attempt to achieve economical access to space, and we now don't have the time to fantasize about last-minute, marathon pipe dream efforts.

[RightWhale]

You're right. NASA doesn't have the right stuff. The American military is way ahead of other militaries in tech, for the time being. That, too, will come to an end some day. So the American Industrial Revolution is officially over, and what is there waiting in the wings to take its place?

[GOP_1900AD]

We need to get you into the GOP convention. Seriously, we do. We need to take that friggin' thing over and get our message into the platform.