” One thing we’ve learned about space is that the human body starts to fall apart after relatively short exposures to microgravity. “
” Boeing, LockMart, and hundreds of other companies, large and small, work in the space business, and they also create new techniques and technology, but they’d be nowhere if NASA and the Department of Defense hadn’t shown the way by funding the first big rockets and satellites. “
” Rather than being an impediment, NASA can and should be the driver of commerce, the provider of the technology necessary to make some big money in space. The truth is that private enterprise already has a huge presence up there. “
” Personally, I’ve got bigger hopes for NASA. I will stipulate it should keep putting telescopes in space so we can figure out where we fit in the universe, and it should also keep building those little robots that can and do. “
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