[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?

[KevinDavis]

I call it money well spent. I would rather see the money spent on the space program then some welfare bums.

[Paul Ross]

You can't keep flying Limburgh over the ocean.

"... The girl in the Chinese pagoda, Ate onions from fair Minnisota, And garlic from Greece, And Limburgher cheese, And her friends dropped like flies from the odor ... "