[repentant_pundit]

NASA needs to get out of the administration mode and let the engineers loose!

I'd take that one small step further and say that NASA needs to be taken out of the Administration altogether, and let the engineers go!

Private industry and privately funded research is the way to go.

If space travel is sufficiently worthwhile, inspiring, or entertaining, it will happen because donors and investors will voluntarily pay for it.

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[Gekko The Great]

Private industry and privately funded research is the way to go.

They won't go. Not enough short-term profit in it for me. Better to trade energy futures and speculate in real estate. To hell with creating or learning anything.

If space travel is sufficiently worthwhile, inspiring, or entertaining, it will happen because donors and investors will voluntarily pay for it.

Right on. "Entertainment Nation" strikes again. Better to stay home and pop the pills. Cheaper that way. I can keep more of my money in my decrepit, stoned-out hands.

[RightWhale]

it will happen because donors and investors will voluntarily pay for it.

Establish private property rights first.