• jonlgeek

    Thank God Bush will be done this year!! I can't wait for the next president to step in. Maybe he will do a better job. Maybe he will stop the wasting of billions on a useless war and spend it on things that will help humanity as a whole. If we could mine Helium-3 from the moon and use that as a power source, it would really lessen the need for nuclear and oil as sources of energy and thus reducing the amount of pollution on our world. And who knows, perhaps there is another substance out there that we just have not discovered yet that is even more powerful as a source of energy. But we'll never figure that out if we are stuck on this planet with no manned space program.

  • dragonegg

    I see China eventually surpassing us in space exploration and populating planets. America has lost it's focus and direction thanks to bad leadership and I expect that to continue for several presidencies. Once the space shuttle gets grounded, that's the end of it. we'll just see some probe launches here and there for the next several decades as we fall behind in the space race. I'm sure in my lifetime, we will see a Chinese astronaut land on the moon and possibly mars. I don't think we'll see international cooperation reach something workable for another century.