I had a thought, I don't neccesarily think it is right but how about htis:
NASA should get out of the public spotlight if they
aren't going to do anything exciting. They should not run a PR campaign trying to tout what they are doing if it isn't of anything interesting to the masses, else they just remind the public that taxes are paying for things they don't care about. On the other hand if they didn't tout the boring stuff, its out of sight, out of mind like most other governmetn programs that loads of money are spent (in most cases wasted) on without the masses caring.
I see a lot of people charging that space as of late has gotten pretty boring. You would think that it would be exciting, in the middle of ISS construction, but those peices going up just seem to look all like each other. And they haven't put much up there as of late anyway. :-(
-Justin Kelly
NASA spolight: a thought