People come up to me and say, 'It's too bad the space program got canceled.' This is not the case, and yet that is what most of the public thinks has happened.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never works that way.
SpaceX has reopened the cosmos, and the space race is back on, only this time it is in the private sector.
I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.
The U.S. federal government may be going broke, but it's not because of NASA.
I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.
I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.
For NASA, space is still a high priority.
There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.
In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since.
I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody gets excited about launches, that nobody cares anymore except people in the industry. I don't believe that for a minute.