I gotta be quick here due to time limits but want to see what you
think. This is a bad time to mention expanding any federal budget
components. This idea may need to wait 'till a better time to be
promoted or implemented. But...

Why did the space program get bi-partisan support in the 1960s?
Because it was a national priority after the USSR upstaged America in
getting people into space.

To be quick and succinct: If it was a good idea then, it is STILL a
good idea. NASA had like 4% fed. budget then (maybe up to 7%).

Big Science and Big Space are not PRIMARILY about national prestige,
though national prestige is always a good idea. Scientific advances
that are not yet free-market meaningful, at any moment, do BECOME SO
before all that long.

Proposed: major increases in science and space budgets as soon as
politically reasonable.

Links:

http://groups.google.com/group/one-million-mph?hl=en

http://1mmph.yolasite.com/

http://groups.google.com/group/scien...ublicans?hl=en