[hopespringseternal]

One thing is sure: We are going to spend the money whether we accomplish anything or not. The real challenge will be overcoming business as usual. The very bureaucrats and contractors who are cashing the checks are precisely the ones who will be the biggest obstacles.

I have talked to them, and they like the way things are. The contractors will have to innovate, and they won't do that without a gun to their heads.

The bureaucrats will actually have to commit to a goal where their is a discernible difference between failure and success and they won't do that without a gun to their heads. Heck, pre-Columbia all they had to do to be considered successful was avoid disaster and they couldn't even do that.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

America deserves better and this vision for space exploration is the better. The entire report comes out tomorrow.