The agency has grand plans to further the human exploration of space, yet they keep getting stymied by a shortsighted congress. It's hard to achieve even modest goals in the political mudfest that passes for government at the end of the 20th century. But I've got the perfect solution. NASA needs to go from Pleistocene government agency to Internet dotcom. Space exploration is clearly one of the biggest hits on the Internet, and NASA is perfectly poised to make a mint.
Lets start with banner ads.
Head over to jpl.nasa.gov and browse the site. Nary a banner ad to be found. At 10 cents a page view, NASA could conceivably pay for much of this mission on page views alone. But the Internet-revenue options don't stop there. Internet companies, flush with cash, are buying up real estate everywhere.