Re:get us off this rock (Score 1)

Um -- Dan Quayle? Someone probably handed him a nicely embossed leather binder with some space plans in it he was happy to endorse. Understanding them was another matter. When it comes to vice presidential space visionaries, I much prefer the grand grafter, Spiro Agnew (PDF), who on the day Apollo 11 blasted off for the moon in 1969 called on the U.S. to make its next destination Mars (ETA=1980, long before Dan Quayle ever thought about whether "potatoe" was the correct spelling).