US Space Program RIP

This Sums Up our Country

US Space Program - Rest in Peace.  Our country's lack of imagination and desire to push boundaries is officially over.  Our country is broke and continues to spend money on wars to keep our military industrial complex humming.  Today while visiting a beloved museum, the Alabama Space and Rocket Center (Home of Space Camp!), I realized just how bad it is.  Pictured above was once a nice space program relic, a full scale mock up of Sky Lab, which once held a special place in the museum is now being rained on while the space it used to fill now has dinosaurs (?). 

In the past 5 years the museum has spent a tremendous amount of money on commenerating the Apollo Project having taken another old full scale model, once located outside, and turned it into a hallmark exhibit.  Very similar to what was done at the Kennedy Space Center.  Certainly an upgrade and a nice layout featuring the apex of our space program.  No real complaints until you start to look a little closer.  Some museum pieces just thrown into display cases without indicating what they were or who used them.  Dust bunnies on rocket engines, mismash of collections, and then blantant displays of "sponsors" thus indicating that we are so freaking poor we have to plaster a whole bunch of logos to display some of our countries greatest technial feats. 

Saddest part is they have this nice little story how we are going back to the moon...oh yeah that got canceled and everything else we thought we could do...canceled.  Sorry America your future has been canceled...