re: The kid's crawling okay, but when is he going to walk?!
All it would take is [maybe] four astronauts dying on the way to Mars...and POOF!!! The press, the pundits
and politicians will kill manned space exploration for the remainder of the century...maybe millennia.
And spacenuts will start gnashing their teeth and crying in their beer.
Politicians like happy endings...no happy endings, no more beginnings...