The Future of NASA

The space shuttle program, which NASA launched in 1981 is about to turn 30 next year and the future of the agency is up in the air with all of the budget turmoil in washington. From the billions, possibly trillions of dollars poured into the project, we have gotten a few nice results like the International Space Station, the Hubble telescope, as well as a few other major satellites, but the cost seems to could the results. With the unemployment issues and lack of funding for the country's infrastructure, I think the US government should pull back a little on the program and look for a way of launching robots or at least lower cost vessels to space. Our government needs to stop feeding the never ending pit that NASA has become in terms of funding and look for private industry or possibly other countries to create a sustainable space exploration system.