The lack of an aerospace program is contributing to our country's failing status globally. Neil deGrasse Tyson writing about the Galileo program in the EU says, " Aerospace is a frontier of our technological prowess. If you're truly on the frontier, you don't sit at a table negotiating usage rights. You're so far ahead of everybody that you're not concerned about what they want.”
In a recent article In Computerworld, Scott Hubbard (Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford) told Sharon Gaudin that NASA was in part responsible for the manifestation of Silicon Valley.
How can we ignore the great contribution of NASA to this country? Evidence is abundant from scholars that the space program fuels this country's innovation and indirectly the economy and global status.