re: #178 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, that’s a good point. Sooner or later, someone would’ve made the cuts.

Walter Mondale had a grudge against NASA over the Apollo 1 disaster. I was convinced he would end the space program if he was elected in 1984. In that time period, the idea that we should “spend the money on Earth instead!” was really prevalent. Stonekettle’s thread is just a faint reflection of those times. The late Carl Sagan even lobbied against the International Space Station at one point; its appropriation passed Congress by ONE vote.