but I can tell you that connecting research to a meaningful expression is fundamental to the value of the research This is a really interesting point, notably

but I can tell you that connecting research to a meaningful expression is fundamental to the value of the research This is a really interesting point, notably with regards to NASA. From the outset, NASA was at its core a defense oriented expenditure - that is to say that it was imbued with an explicit purpose. Fast-forward to the creation of the space shuttle and the thawing of space-relations with the Apollo-Soyuz docking in 1975. It seems that from this point forward that NASA's mission of human spaceflight had lost its way, characterized today by the morass that the space shuttle has become.