It's time to review space policy in Washington D.C.; including the planned retirement of the 1970s tech space shuttle.
The G.W. Bush administration focused efforts on planning for revisiting the moon, including investigating the possibility of water ice at the poles - a worthwhile endeavor.
In these times space funding will be difficult - not to mention running the same risks of unprofitable endeavor now engaged in by both big government and big business. Getting it right may be every bit as hard as getting it right at GM - here's to hoping Barack is up to the task.
