From the Space.com article: "Exploration, she said later in the debate, would be ‘but one goal among many.’" -- Lets just pause and think about this one, shall we? What exactly is there worth while and public dollars to do up there in space ASIDE from exploration? Wait, I got it. "And I will call it my ‘Moonbase,’ and my giant insurgent-busting ‘Laser.’" ----- "Much of the debate between Garver and Sietzen centered on the question of whether the vision for human and robotic space exploration outlined by Bush in January should dominate NASA’s future. NASA faces ‘a huge risk we can lose what we have now if we do this one thing,’ Garver argued." -- Isn’t that just a poorly phrased way of saying we have more or less nothing to lose?