Space Frontier Foundation

It is absurd that more then 50 years into the age of human spaceflight, the entire world depends on one launch system to get people to and from space.

This week, the shuttle program ends and we "celebrate" the anniversary of Apollo, when humans first walked on the moon. Yet, many question if we ever went. Why? Because if we had why aren't we still there and far beyond?

Although it was government that led the first wave over the barricades of gravity, it is now the people who are taking on the work, and all hands are needed.

It's heretical to say it in many quarters, but unlike its astronomy and robotic exploration programs, the current NASA operated human spaceflight program has failed by any rational measure.