Congress voted this week to implement a presidential plan to combine all shuttle operations under the aegis of a single outside contractor. At the same time, supporters of the shuttle program turned back an effort to sell off the shuttle fleet but saved the current effort to build an orbiting space station.
Personal responsibility wakes bureaucrats up the same way it does anyone else.
Starsnye did express his pleasure at the vote to keep the orbiting space station program. The space station program is particularly significant to our foreign partners and to the American people. At least Congress is not retreating entirely from the future. I hope this vision persists into next week's vote about other space programs. If we could only have canceled the space station as well, we'd be keeping those awful, godless Russians away from our secrets, as well as keeping Washington bureaucrats away from our money.