Look At The Aerospace Industry As It

The Russians Did Much Bigger Space Launch Vehicles For Launching Satellites And For Getting Men In Orbit. They Did That Much Sooner Than America Because America Was Very Good At Something Else.

Nasa's Myriad Failures Are In Many Ways The Natural Consequence Of A Catastrophic Combination Of Bureaucracy, Monopoly, And A Calcifying Aversion To The Kind Of Risk Necessary For Innovation.

There Is A Rampant Tendency In Any Industry Where Someone Is Trying To Sell Something With A Bunch Of Data, Where They Cherry Pick A Little Bit... Bias A Little Bit. This Becomes Quite Easy When There Is An Enormous Amount Of Data To Cherry Pick From.

The Photographs Of Space Taken By Our Astronauts Have Been Published All Over The Place. But The Eye Is A Much More Dynamic Mechanism Than Any Camera Or Pictures. It's A More Exciting View In Person Than Looking At The Photographs. Of Course, I Personally Am Sick And Tired Of Hearing People Talk Like That: I Want To See It Myself!

Testing Leads To Failure, And Failure Leads To Understanding