| The manned space program is akin to pyramid building. What other great technologies might have we discovered if we didn't waste so much money on projects based more on prestige than scientific need? The shuttle itself has never made sense in either scientific or economic terms. Now it is a patched together program flying a few overaged and outdated junkers.
Everything we now do in the manned space program, with the possible exception of killing astronauts, we could do with unmanned probes and satellites.
Rick
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis |