Houston, You Have a Problem

Jed Babbin in The American Spectator...
By now, after years of research on the International Space Station, Russian cosmonauts have undoubtedly proven scientifically that you can make a vodka screwdriver with Tang. Not that you'd want to drink the damned thing, but I bet they did. Racing along, propelled by this fearsome space race, the Chinese are sending their own space explorers up to test the effects of low gravity on pig sperm. The only good thing you can say about the Chinese effort is that we're not paying for it. Which cannot be said of the International Space Station, an orbiting WPA project that -- along with its aging and unreliable delivery truck, the space shuttle -- are diverting the time, money and scientific talent NASA should be spending on real science and space exploration. Read the rest of the article HERE.