"Bush Seeks 1-Percent Increase for NASA in 2007 Budget Request"

Good news for the space boys.

Within the NASA request, roughly $6.2 billion would go to the international space station and space shuttle programs, about $3.9 billion would go toward the development of new human and unmanned spacecraft needed to replace the shuttle and send astronauts to the Moon, about $5.3 billion would go to space and Earth science missions, and about $720 million would go to aeronautics research.

If it were me, I would swap the destinations for the $3.9 billion and the $5.3 billion. We need to start moving out toward the stars, and we need new ways to do it. And, it takes funding.

Now, about that space elevator --