[KevinDavis]

You see things the short term. I see things long term. It has not failed for 20 years. I'm talking about human colonization on mars, the moon. You sir are a wimp. A wimp supports robots only in space. A true american would go into space aboard the space shuttle. You must be a lefty.. THey are wimps like you!

[DPB101]

Just telling you the political reality as I see it. Were you around for the first flights? Every 13 year old boy was glued to the TV and knew the names of all the astronauts. That is the excitement which must be generated. You can't keep flying Limburgh over the ocean. You can't send Columbus to the New World over and over without some point to it. There has to be a hook . Not a new record of time in orbit or going beyond the moon and coming back with nothing to show but you went or the first this or that in space.

A shuttle launch costs about $400 million and most people could care less if they see it or not. Suppose you had that money and were promised another $400 million in 6 months if your could, with some sort of space program, generate widespread interest in space. How would you spend the cash?

[RightWhale]

A true american would go into space aboard the space shuttle.

America is a place to set up your Oneida, your New Harmony. It requires wilderness and a frontier. That America flourished 200 years ago, and is gone, gone, gone.

The American spirit needs land, lots of land, promising and unforgiving land. It is the land that allows dreams to be made real. America had that, but it is gone.

Time is now for the new America, the endless America, the America that goes on forever without limit in the expanding universe.

The Space Shuttle goes only across the Mississippi from St. Louis and back. America starts when the Space Shuttle leaves you out there. Out there where, believe it or not, a star was just discovered in Aries, only 7.8 lightyears away. We know nothing about the endless wilderness, and anything is possible out there. How can real Americans possibly be content to sit here at the dock in St. Louis when everything is just across there? If you go out there, you'll die. But guess what, if you stay here, you'll die anyway.