Remember the last time your PC crashed? Imagine that happening on the ISS. Just because NASA isn't running the latest PC tech up there doesn't mean it's unreliable buggy crap.

The Shuttle was not a white elephant, it was a space truck. That's all it was ever intended to be. I got a chuckle when someone asked me why they don't have shuttle flights to the moon. If I had to choose between the Shuttle and those creaky Russian Soyuz capsules were stuck with at the moment, I'd fly American. ;)

I toured Cape Canaveral over the summer. Big things are happening there. The old shuttle launch pad is being rebuilt to handle a rocket the likes of we haven't seen since the mighty Saturn V.

On the Air Force side of the base, a row of ancient aircraft hangars are being refurbished for their new tenants. Space X already operates out of one. The privatization of space travel is going to be a game changer.

I really wish NASA had not torn down the one historic building I know for sure my father worked in back in the 60's. :(