Originally Posted by NuGuy

Why? So you could witness the death of American space exploration? So you could tell your kids "I was there when we gave up"?

I'll pass. It was more depressing than anything else.

NASA's budget, even at it's peak, wasn't even a rounding error in the overall budget, yet employed tens of thousands of SKILLED Americans...scientists, engineers, machinists, plus thousands more in the ancillary industries. Plus we got really, REALLY cool stuff. THAT'S the way you waste taxpayers money.

How small we've become

Nu