It is truly a sad day, the only consolation will be that people when seeing Discovery will appreaciate now what they used to take for granted.

I hope and pray that this countries goverment get's it head out of it's A**, and fully funds our space program. Maybe it will take another space race with China this time to get that done. In that case I hope China has a little bit of success in space in order to wake our government up!

Regardless of the political situation, NASA has been one government agency that is above the rest.

Steve