By Charles Krauthammer"To be more precise: almost 40 years spent in low Earth orbit studying, well, zero-G nausea and sundry cosmic mysteries. We've done it with the most beautiful, intricate, complicated — and ultimately, hopelessly impractical — machine ever built by man: the space shuttle. We turned this magnificent bird into a truck for hauling goods and people to a tinkertoy we call the international space station, itself created in a fit of post-Cold War internationalist absentmindedness as a place where people of differing nationality can sing "Kumbaya" while weightless."
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Mr. Krauthammer, so bound to this earth, but a visonary of hope. I cryed after reading this. I was there all through the space program, watching, watching, hopeing for a victory. Actually seeing it done by people, not unlike me, sending Americans to the moon and back, Safetly. To be forgotton and spit on, by our own population. What a tragedie this has become. 1903 to 1969, 66 years, and done in less than a decade. Only America could do such a thing, no other country has done this in the last 4 billion years or will do it without the help of America, and then forget about it for 40 years. SHAME ON US, SHAME ON US. I cry for you America almost every day. What hath you wrought, America, what hath you voited in, America? Heltau
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