The real irony of the article isn't the truth of what it says, but what it doesn't say -- no politician wants to vote for a change in NASA's status. Killing NAS

The real irony of the article isn't the truth of what it says, but what it doesn't say -- no politician wants to vote for a change in NASA's status. Killing NASA lurks just below killing Social Security in the politically untouchable sweepstakes. This may all seem trivial ten or twenty years from now, when private enterprise has taken over 90% of what NASA does -- a process that's already begun.