NASA should be abolished after evacuating the space station, the shuttles sent to the museums where they belong, and NASA's entire budget (INCLUDING the useless space probes that the Gang that Couldn't Keep Meters and Yards Straight keeps sending up) should be redirected toward encouraging and supporting private space initiatives.
I don't think the bureaucrats understand that our system of capitalism and free enterprise is our advantage over the dictatorships, communists and welfare states that challenge us. Trying to out-bureaucratize command economies like China is not a good idea in the long run.
Give a $10 billion prize to the first outfit that perfects a reusable launch vehicle with commercial prospects (tourism alone should suffice), and let's see how long it takes!
Yeeeeup! I totally agree. I'd make one stipulation though. The Loral-like corporation that passes on one national security secret should have it's executives taken out back and shot!