I'm not sure you can blame him, though. President Carter is exceptionally intelligent, graduated in the top 7.2% of his Naval Academy class of 820 after studyin

I'm not sure you can blame him, though. President Carter is exceptionally intelligent, graduated in the top 7.2% of his Naval Academy class of 820 after studying nuclear engineering and completed graduate studies in nuclear physics and reactor technology. Everyone just assumes Space! We all insist on it, but we all don't have the full picture. The man is practical, understood the costs, risks and value of, as of then, unrealized benefits. The last thing NASA needed in the late 1970's and early 1980's is an uncommonly intelligent President of the United States. It was their bad luck, and yet they lucked out. Give President Carter a break. The man is a saint. Compare to President Clinton, who is also highly intelligent, and yet not a saint. I'm not saying he's bad, just a bad, bad, boy.