re: The space 'initiative'
Unfortunately you are probably right. I keep going back and forth from optimism to pessimism to optimism. This morning it's the pessimist. I heard an interview with a budget expert and his take on why Bush didn't mention the space initiative in the SOU was that he had received some strong indications from the conservative side of his support that they would in no way support the spending of money to go to the moon. So the reason there was zero mention of the space initiative is that he has zero intention of going through with it.