re: #539 Cato the Elder

Bush did none of that. He rubber-stamped projects proposed by NASA and funded by Congress.

And manned missions to the moon or Mars are indeed a waste of time and money. As for “worlds beyond”, come and talk to me when you’ve perfected your warp drive.

Bush’s vision, which by the way launched the development, now to be defunded, of the Ares 1 and Ares 5 is hardly a rubber stamp project. If you are comfortable with a second or third or worse position in aerospace industries, then I guess you can justify that with far more important community organizing initiatives. That is fine, to each his own so they say.