Re:To all the naysayers. (Score 1)

Mindstalker, You seem to think there is some economic incentive for private industry to do space exploration. Can you explain what that might be? I think NASA has completely lost its mojo since about 1975. So leaving Billions of dollars (and even increasing them as DubYa suggests) so that they can be squandered by an incompetent bunch of bureaucrats who pretend to be going to Mars or the Moon while they fatten their wallets at my expense seems stupid. The dictionary defines stupid as 'doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.' Sort of like Challenger followed by Columbia. 'We have obviously experienced a Major mal-function'. Wake up and smell the coffee!!!