— Donald

I would hope that the names of the Apollo 1 astronauts would be included in the lunar base name either in the names of the modules or maybe even a lunar base for each one.

. . . not to mention the science advisor!

Jim: There are plenty of good reasons to criticize this president, but his space policy isn’t one of them.

I fully agree, though I would probably add the space policy is pretty much the only one. Unfortunately, the Administration’s other idiocies (credit card budgeting, picking extraordinarily expensive wars, ignoring impending environmental disasters until they are extremely expensive to fix, encouraging vast divisions of wealth and the attendant future social unrest, et cetera) will probably make this achievement entirely moot.

— Donald

I like Mike Griffin and George Bush deserves praise for that choice. Any NASA Administrator who can unabashedly assert that the goal is the permanent settlement of space needs to be supported.

This sounds like just a Bush hater. There are plenty of good reasons to criticize this president, but his space policy isn’t one of them.
I am particularly amused by the notion that the lunar base will be named after GWB.
Obviously “jet” doesn’t know we plan to name the base at the South Pole — up on the ridge line of Aitken Basin, which is in perpetual sunlight — Reaganton, since it will be that “shining city on a hill”. (evil grin)

– Jim

My point is not to say that all bloggers are “irrelevant”. (Nor would I try to convince you to hang on every word I post, however.) Sometimes, though, you run across a post so egregious it deserves a few seconds of infamy. In general, I’d argue, there’s not a lot of good space policy commentary online: indicative, perhaps, of the relative importance (or lack thereof) of space policy in the grander scheme of things.