Originally posted by Minion
President Bush is planning to announce major, major plans to go back to the moon and re-invigorate NASA. As i was saying before, certain politicians
such as the ones in my home state of NJ (Sen. Laughtenburgh) think that the space industry is a complete waste. I think he should shut his 90 year old
mouth. Any comments?

You're absolutely right, he should shut his mouth already. I wonder what the Senator would say about this:

Space R&D and TEN-T development are also part of a larger value chain which stimulates R&D in other sectors and leads to commercial
applications, such as GALILEO, with potentially very large revenues and job creation possibilities.
Each euro invested into the space applications
generates a turnover of 7-8 euros due to the development of added-value services 
europa.eu.int...
Doesn't seem like it's a complete waste to me.
[Edited on 9-1-2004 by Paradigm]
[Edited on 9-1-2004 by Paradigm]