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Well, for my first posting on the net, I have garnered an amazing response.
Unfortunately, a good deal of it is negative. 

But before I try to rebuff some of the comments I've seen, let me apologize
to Mr. Spencer for stating that he is a idiot.  He's seems (from what I've seen)
to be an intelligent and informed person.  Now, with that out of the way, let's
begin.

I'm sorry that at least one of you out there considers by opinion "naive".
I an not unaware of what has happened to my neighbor NASA these days.  With
reports of coverups and suppressions of the truth and other nasty stuff, I
am a little disheartened by it all.  Worst of all, I terribly saddened by the
fact that we could do an immensely better job, except that some pinheads in
Washington think it more fun to play politics rather than playing getting down
to work.  But thought it all, I still have faith in NASA that they'll weather
this storm and come back to its rightful place.  Call me idealistically
optimistic, but that how it think it'll be.

And to clarify a point I made, at this point in time, I believe the Soviets
to be in the lead of the Space Race.  They have made accomplishments where we
have had failures.  But again, I don't see whe we should just say "Okay, that's
it ladies and gentlemen.  For now on, the show's gonna be run from Baikonur!"  
Now is our chance to do what should have been done all along: define what
we want to do in space.  Do we want to go commercial?  Do we want a space
station?  Do we want more planetary exploration (manned or unmanned)?  All
we want to do now is get the shuttle flying again!  Well, we just did that.
So now what?  Uh, let's launch another.  Yeah!  That's it!  Okay, what then?
Well, don't ask me these silly questions!

Ya see, we could be just as busy as the Sovs, but we are just running around
like a chicken with no head.  I just hope that someday soon, we find that
head again and put it back!

-- 
Jason Gross     Comp Sci Ugrad     University of Miami     Class of '91 (?)
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