They regarded it with a sort of mystique. And it's always hard to recreate the same level of excitement you get with something new. So even though we have a lot of exciting missions now, I think that it is going to be hard to ever compare to that type of mission. Nevertheless, the challenge and the opportunities for space flight are very exciting, even though they might be different from Apollo. Money is a lot tighter now.
Money is a lot tighter.
At one point we were spending over 4 percent of the federal budget dollar on Apollo. Today we're running the entire space program on less than 1 percent. Today we have 23,000. A smaller workforce means we have had to become more efficient. NASA is working on something called the national aerospace plane.