Its all a giant shuffle anyway. The country is going bankrupt at so large a rate that in a few years Nasa will be shut down anyway. After all if we can't put money into rebuilding New Orleans and the Gulf Coast because our leaders are stark raving nuts baboons who would rather spend a trillion dollars in a pointless war than put that trillion into the general economy energy independence. Its the end of the age. And it will be thousands of years before it restarts.