Nice to have some positive thoughts attributed to this thread.
I guess that there'll always be grumbling about the program from some, and their percieved reasoning for the motivation (or lack of) behind it, but is it now just a question of whether it's important enough to do one day. Does it really matter what the reasoning behind the space race was? I think not. For those of us who revel in it its complexity and wondrous achievement, the politics really mean squat. The happenings during the 1960s were fuelled by two nations diametrically opposed in their political views, and this atmosphere of supremist competition acted as the catalyst to get the human species up there. Brezhnev and Kennedy - glad you two blokes fired rockets into space rather than at each other!
