It’s a space-based fisking over at Transterrestrial Musings…
The real issue is the money, and the opportunity costs, had we expended it in a manner that would have actually made significant progress in moving humanity off the planet, which that amount of money certainly could have, if not wasted on tech-welfare boondoggles like Shuttle and ISS. But Bruce is too busy crying about the fact that we didn’t send robots to think about how the money could have been better spend for getting us into space.