"Scott Lowther" wrote in message
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Jeff Findley wrote:
Because the American public, in general, doesn't care about manned
spaceflight. More people are likely aware about how high the oil
industries
profits were last quarter than are aware of how many people are on ISS at
this moment.

You confuse ISS with manned spaceflight. It's manned
going-around-in-a-circle.

At the moment, shuttle/ISS *is* US manned spaceflight, and the US public
isn't interested.

If you look back at Apollo, public interest was dropping like a stone once
Apollo 11 made it home safely. Only the chance of astronauts dying in space
made the public wake up during Apollo 13. The same thing will happen with
Apollo 2.0. After a couple of missions, the public will quickly lose
interest.

Jeff
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