Re:Why fly... (Score 3, Informative)

Actually, speaking myself as a liberal Democrat, opposition to the SSC was pretty non-partisan. If anything, there was more support from the Republican party. In particular, Reagan was pretty supportive of the SSC while Clinton's lack of strong support was probably its undoing. But on the whole, there is a problem that funding of a large scale big science project over the span of decades has a real hard time surviving the congressional budget process.