Just how tenuous is our toehold in space?

[Cyber Wolf]

Originally Posted by TheSnake

America's fascination with space has died. And this among other reasons has resulted in a large drop of funding for NASA. Missions to space are amazingly expensive and often yield few results that people can hang on to. In our increasingly immediate gratification society, space fervor is gone.

Just wait until another country develops and successfully maintains a space program such as ours, with (ideally) regular exploratory flights out into the Nothing, especially if that program managed to run smoother and more efficiently than ours. Suddenly our space program will get all kinds of attention and funding because we Americans have to be the biggest/best in the world at anything that's high profile like that.