I wonder if the love of cool space stuff is enough to sustain things in the long term. Maybe it is more like funding for the arts. People who love opera under

I wonder if the love of cool space stuff is enough to sustain things in the long term. Maybe it is more like funding for the arts. People who love opera understand that arts funding is hugely important. But it is a niche that most will never really get excited about. We need to look beyond the mass appeal of the Apollo era and be supportive of things for more intellectual and even artistic reasons. Just think how many people support Nasa just because they love the Hubble images. It has to be more than just "because its there" to be sustained.