These right wingers are so dense. What is it they don't get.
Rocket Technology has only improved "a little" since the 1960's. And those improvements are because of computers and composites. But the technology is basically the same.
Republicans keep saying, "Get government out of the way and let business take over". Only we know that doesn't work. Because business doesn't do much research. Why? Because research is "risky". Get it? Research is "risky". Companies grow by buying up other companies. And then laying off people.
Republicans are conservative. They want things THE SAME. They have no new ideas. No vision. Delusion aren't "vision".
What Obama has done is move away from trying to visit the top of Mt. St. Helen's on a pogo stick.
NASA has turned towards developing new methods of moving a payload into space. Away from "building". That, they are leaving to "private companies".
What has ALWAYS worked best in this country is a partnership between Universities, Business and Government. Fucking dumb ass Republicans have demonized Government and trashed Education. And they have set up business as a "False God". We've got to stop listening to these awful people. They can't think, they are stupid, they don't have facts to back up anything they say, they are delusional. I don't think they are lying on purpose. Their delusions keep them from recognizing their lies.
And by "risky" they mean "What's in it for me? Nothing? Ain't happening, yo."